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We welcome this instrument, which will be of practical assistance to disabled people living in properties which have common parts and recognise the work that has gone into preparing them.
The Bill's purpose is to correct any remaining “discriminatory effect” of these laws by granting all men convicted of such offences in Scotland (living and posthumously if deceased) an automatic pardon.
It suggested that, on the island of Unst in Shetland, the basic cost of living could be 40 per cent higher than the cost of living in the central belt.
Thanks to the tax and social security decisions that we have taken, 60 per cent of Scots will be better off because they live in Scotland. That is exactly what this budget is about—delivering for and improving the lives of the people of Scotland.
Mr Russell flagged up the potential for the proposed UK internal market to have an impact on the Scottish Parliament’s ability to legislate on high environmental standards, which is a live issue, particularly this week, given some of the comments about animal welfare and food standards that are out there.
Clearly there has been discussion between the Governments and they have reached a decision about those parts of the legislation that they can live with and those parts that the Scottish Government cannot live with.
From the top of the organisation, we are pushing to ensure that that message gets out. We live by those values and we need to ensure that everybody knows that and sees us working in that way.
We currently have a gold healthy working lives award. Part of that is to do with assessing what we give to our workforce in the area of mental health support.