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In today’s Dunfermline Press, it is reported that council chiefs have agreed to work towards a reopening date of 1 June across Scotland. Can the cabinet secretary confirm whether that date has been agreed?
If, let us say, £100 is given for a project, they try to pool it with other organisations that have similar funding to create a bank of resources to help each other out when there are delays.
Those protections need to be in place, but they make it impossible for people to deal with the affairs of someone who is away unexpectedly, which is particularly complicated when there are shared assets, bank accounts or mortgages or when there are dependents to look after.
Those with a lower income are less likely to be able to afford good-quality food and more likely to live in poor-quality housing and, ultimately, they are likely to die younger than their peers. Food bank use is at a high. The situation has been exacerbated by the pandemic, but it is also exacerbated by inequalities.
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the comments by the former RBS chief executive and chairman, Sir George Mathewson, that the Better Together campaign's claims on banking and currency in an independent Scotland are "nonsense".
Universal credit has already inflicted hardship and increased food bank use on my constituency. Does the minister agree that the DWP must start providing transitional payments to anyone moving to universal credit, no matter whether they are part of natural or managed migration?
So if the UK Government wanted to avoid a complete legal minefield, it would abandon any proposal for a cut-off date that was earlier than the date for withdrawing from the European Union.
Unfortunately, millions of people living in the area that the airline serves will be unable to board those flights at Edinburgh airport, solely on the basis of their ethnicity, because Palestinians living in the West Bank are not allowed to fly through Ben Gurion airport, unlike Jewish Israelis living in settlements next door to them.