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A related point is that, as you have said, many people have simply drifted into long-term economic inactivity following furlough and it has been hard to get them back.
As it stands, we spend about a quarter of a billion pounds on the SBBS every year, and in many cases, it is received by businesses that many of us would not recognise as small.
S5W-29375 Miles Briggs: To ask the Scottish Government how many patients were transferred between hospitals in Scotland in (a) March and (b) April 2020 and, of these, how many were tested for COVID-19 before transfer.
Written questions lodged on 03 May 2018 S5W-16224 Kezia Dugdale: To ask the Scottish Government how many foster carers have de- registered in each of the last five years.
I invite Paul Ferguson to comment, and then Lisa Hayward, as we would like to hear the Welsh perspective, too. Council tax has many faults, which have been raised in many forums, but it has survived largely untouched for the past 32 years.