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Adult disability payment will replace personal independence payment in 2022. The Scottish Government’s submission states that the definition of terminal illness will be changed under ADP to remove arbitrary time constraints and ensure that decisions are better informed by clinical judgment.
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Date answered:
3 February 2009
FFHE stands for Finance for Higher Education Ltd which is owned by the Royal Bank of Scotland. 2. HTL stands for Honours Trustee Ltd which is owned by a consortium of Deutsche Bank, Nationwide. 3.
It is not unusual for one of those forces to be the first responder to provide assistance to Police Scotland. We recently had a robbery at a bank, and a Cumbria police dog van assisted in tracking the suspect.
The meetings cannot take place without us, which probably means that we have some influence on the dates, but it has proved to be difficult to set dates.
Many of the barriers to participation in sport are to do with poverty. Food banks are an austerity problem, but people in Scotland are more likely to use food banks than people anywhere else in the UK.
As a result of a meeting I chaired on 19 November 2015, the banks agreed to encourage all producers to consider their cash flow position and to contact their bank as soon as possible if they have any concerns.
We see in the latest scrutiny report from the Poverty and Inequality Commission that the investment in the actions in “Best Start, Bright Futures: tackling child poverty delivery plan 2022-2026” has not matched the ambition of those policies.
I do not know whether you have had access to a recent NatureScot report that was published in 2022, which was a meta-analysis of all the literature on muirburn.