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In the case of Highland, for example, if we push everything towards Inverness, we lose not only those voices but the infrastructure of people, services, roads and so on that would encourage people to come back and live in those places. 10:45 There are different ways of looking at the question.
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Date answered:
9 September 2015
For illustrative purposes, assuming a household income of £25,000 the amount of loan available to a young student for a standard 30 week course in 2012-13 would have been: Living away from home: £940 the lowest loan and £3813 the highest loan.
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Date answered:
17 January 2014
These included: Household Income, the length of the course, where the student lived while studying, the year of the course (the final year loan was at a lower level) and if other members of the family where in higher or further education.
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Date answered:
11 April 2013
We have been working with the Violence Reduction Unit since 2008 and continue to invest in initiatives such as No Knives Better Lives, Medics Against Violence and Mentors in Violence Prevention.
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Date answered:
14 December 2011
To build on the success of the initial two years of the successful No Knives Better Lives campaign, the Cabinet Secretary for Justice announced a doubling of the funding to £500,000 for 2011-12.
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Date answered:
2 November 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what legal barriers there are to it introducing conditions in procurement processes that ensure that employees of it, public authorities and subcontractors are paid a living wage. Low pay is an issue that the Scottish Government takes very seriously and we support the principles of the living wage campaign.
The issue of how we can work with our staff to move forward is a live topic, but let us be quite clear: staff do not live in a bubble; they have an interest in this.