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If members are looking for helpful material, I can point them to a wonderfully comprehensive review—it is dated about 2006—by Robin Spon-Smith, which I found on the internet.
I understand that there is a national shortage of social workers and social care staff, so where will you get those people from? To date, we have succeeded in recruiting the staff that we require.
Under the current law as I understand it, an arbiter can award interest only from the date of decree arbitral. Under rule 46, the arbiter can award interest from the date when he or she considers that the sum was reasonably due.
The message that we are getting out is simple: people should make sure that HMRC has their up-to-date address so that we can correctly apply the Scottish rate.
An application can be made eight weeks prior to the date of the tenancy starting, which gives a young person who is moving into a new tenancy the opportunity to get the goods or whatever they require.
We look forward to hearing from you in writing at a later date. Thank you very much indeed. I briefly suspend the meeting while we get ourselves organised for the next item. 10:26 Meeting suspended. 10:28 On resuming—