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Members will note that there was a breach of the minimum 28-day rule between the date of the regulations being laid and the date when the provisions come into force.
I cannot comment on the specific nature of the rent support for those individual pubs, as I do not have the information in front of me, but I know that we have provided support to all our tenants. You asked me about holidays in respect of our own banking arrangements.
As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Scottish Government decided to postpone the Census until March 2022. The postponement of the Census has resulted in additional cost associated with the delivery of the census.
To ask the Scottish Government what work it or its agencies is undertaking with the retail and banking sectors to ensure that everyone who needs it has access to a bank account, ahead of the introduction of universal credit.
The EPL was always supposed to be a temporary measure, as introduced by the Conservative Government, but it is now affecting investment and jobs in the north-east more generally, and the UK Government should be considering when the earliest possible end date could be. My thoughts are with the workers and their families at Petrofac at this traumatic time.
Since then, much to the frustration of my constituents, there has been little word from Scottish ministers on when such discussions will conclude. Again, we have heard no firm date, nor have we even heard who is undertaking the discussions on the Government’s behalf.
Has the Scottish Government done any analysis of the new UK Government scheme to change the release date of prisoners? As a result of that scheme, around 1,700 prisoners were released initially, and a total of around 5,500 will be released when further tranches take place.