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Why is the Government prioritising people who can already afford a home and people who want to buy a home over those without somewhere safe to live? That is quite an unfair assessment, if I may say so.
The challenge for Scotland is to continue to be attractive and to give people who come here a positive experience of living here, whether they continue to live here or do so temporarily.
As such, we are clear that the UK Government is playing with the lives of the people of Scotland and, indeed, the lives of people in the rest of the United Kingdom who depend upon these life-saving products.
In Scotland, a small number of children do not live past their first birthday. Some of those deaths, unfortunately, are through accidents, which are often preventable.
When I spoke about the big Burns supper last year, I pointed out that it is really special because Dumfries is a living stage and is the place where Burns lived and worked.
Questions and Answers
Date lodged:
6 November 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reports of women, including single mothers, resorting to so-called survival sex because their universal credit payments do not cover the basic needs of daily living. S5O-03761