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For some people, eligibility for a blue badge is dependent on receipt of the higher rate of the mobility component of disability living allowance. What impact might the UK Welfare Reform Act 2012 have on the operation of the blue badge scheme in Scotland?
According to the European Union’s own statistics, in 2010, 80 million people were, in the EU’s terminology, at risk of living in poverty and social exclusion; it is now 122 million.
We must continue it and get updated information, as it concerns not just the economy and businesses but the lives of local people, who find it difficult even to get around because of the landslides.
HIAL is promoting our lifeline airports to the Westminster Government to be used as a living laboratory for testing projects using emergent technologies.
I thank everyone who has stepped up to deal with the impact of the pandemic on our lives, and I thank the many thousands of people who were already making a difference.
Many of our young people have had to face that pain across different aspects of their lives. I want to make it clear that I understand that anguish and I can see that, for some, the SQA results process made that worse.
Communication disadvantage is strongly associated with socioeconomic disadvantage, and many people who are living with disabilities and long-term conditions will also experience communication disadvantage.