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Introduction
At its meeting on 14 December, the Committee considered the following instruments under its remit and agreed to draw them to the attention of the relevant lead committee:
Scottish Child Payment Regulations 2020 and the Disability Assistance for Children and Young People (Scotland) Regulations 2021 (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2022 (S...
Local government
This section of the briefing sets out a high-level summary and analysis of the local government budget for 2022-23. The Local Government Finance Circular, which details the provisional allocations to individual local authorities, is due for publication on Monday 20 December.
Letter about the Committee's Pre-budget scrutiny 2022-23.
Letter to the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Housing and Local Government, 29 October 2021.
While the Committee agreed to make no recommendations in relation to the instrument, we also agreed to write to the Scottish Government to request further information on the implementation dates chosen, and the rationale for choosing those dates.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
6 February 2018
To ask the Scottish Government how much each NHS board has spent on (a) agency and (b) bank staff in each year since 1999. Agency spend figures for each NHS Board are only available from 2006-7 to 2016-17 and are given in the following table.
The 2001 Act set a fuel poverty target, but only required the Government to set the target date in a fuel poverty statement. The target - - - - date, therefore, does not appear on the face of the 2001 Act.
Some of its archives go way back, deep into the 19th century, with one or two interesting documents that I found dating from the 18th century or even earlier.