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The most important thing, particularly in March and April, was to make sure that people had income in their pockets, so we wanted the companies not to pull resources but to continue to pay people even though performances were not taking place.
We have said that we will take as read the draft outcome agreements that we received in February and March, but we will say to institutions that we are not expecting them to meet all the targets that have been set, when there has been significant Covid-19 disruption.
That does not apply to the RT-PCR test: it is a very good and sound test, and it gives a result within 24 hours. In March, the strategy appeared to include testing and contact tracing.
Last time I checked, we did not have a date for that, but it will probably be at the end of March or the beginning of April. I hope—but, as the minister said, I cannot guarantee—that the family law committee will sign off the rules at that meeting.
Therefore, the commission’s work will be factored into early engagement in the preparation of NPF4, which is scheduled for January to March 2020. We are also working to ensure that there is close alignment between the update of the climate change plan, the development of the national planning framework and the infrastructure investment plan, because it wou...
—Official Report, House of Commons, 15 March 1988; Vol 129, c 1006. The Forestry Commission—which, after its functions were devolved to the Scottish Government this year, is now Forestry and Land Scotland—was set up after the first world war.
Children who were born between September and December and who attend school before their fifth birthday receive a total of 18 months’ entitlement, which is six months less than those who were born between March and August get. That has been labelled “birthday discrimination”.