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Members indicated agreement.People with Dementia (Council Tax Discounts) (PE1976) People with Dementia (Council Tax Discounts) (PE1976) The next petition is PE1976, which was lodged by Derek James Brown. The petition calls on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to require council tax discounts to be backdated to the date when a person i...
I also highlight one of the key recommendations that Scottish Labour proposed last year, in Gordon Brown’s commission on the UK’s future, which was to look at Scotland being able to sign international agreements in devolved areas.
We have to deal with such suffering at its source, which is the UK Government’s policy of austerity. I commend Keith Brown for drawing that to the attention of Parliament in the debate.
I welcome from the Scottish Government Gillian Cross, child poverty lead; Paul Tyrer, head of social justice strategy; and Colin Brown, senior principal legal officer with the economy and transport division.
I would like to think that by the end of this parliamentary session some of these issues will have been tackled. As Carol Mochan, SiobhianBrown and Stephanie Callaghan rightly said, there are complex reasons behind the growing problem of mental ill-health.