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As I have said, we hope that a number of artists will perform in the Parliament but, as we and Creative Scotland are aware, artists quite often live on the breadline and some might therefore be restricted in coming along and taking an active part in meetings.
Part of the regulations defines the income of someone who is self-employed, and schedules refer to which income is treated as income and which is disregarded.Lastly, the applicant’s living expenses need to be determined.
We have nothing to thank the pandemic for but, if it was not for the pandemic, I am convinced that a lot more than three people would have lost their lives on that fateful day because the train would have been jam packed and hundreds of people would have lost their lives.
As noted earlier in this report, the Committee established five workstreams, including participants with lived experience panels of accessing and delivery self-directed support (SDS) to inform its post-legislative scrutiny of the Self-directed Support (Scotland) Act 2013.
In her opening remarks, the Minister said—
"Without the changes that are being made to the regulations today, the go-live date would still be 16 August this year.
As a result of the evidence, Ministers agreed before the final Regulations were laid that summer 2022 was the earliest go-live date which would give high confidence of successful delivery.
It has been suggested that some UK pensioners currently living elsewhere in the EU may return, this could place increased pressure on health and social care services.
Duncan McNeil just mentioned the living wage. The Government needs to look at how much money it is taking from people on the minimum wage and the living wage before it starts telling business to pay higher wages.