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Housing is an important local and national investment. Has any up-to-date work been done that demonstrates the very clear economic impact of investment in housing?
The consent for opencast mining in my colleague Finlay Carson’s part of the country resulted in a substantial improvement in the quality of the water and the banks of the River Nith, which resulted in a dramatic rise in the number of salmon that were making it up the river to spawn.
One might call that a bit strong for a debate on local democracy, but for me it is exactly the point. The revelation that the banks and the financial sector were selling people credit that they obviously could not afford highlighted the fact that, as the political economist Joseph Stiglitz put it, “There was a party going on—only a few at the top were invi...
However, that figure pales in comparison with the £137 billion bailout of the irresponsible banks that caused the previous economic crisis, and the more than £202 billion that the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament estimates it would cost to renew the UK’s dangerous and useless nuclear weapons programme.
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Date answered:
22 March 2021
The first Family Pandemic Payment will be made around summer 2021, with the second payment made around Christmas 2021. The date for each round of payments will be confirmed following further discussion with COSLA and will be published on mygov.scot in due course.
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Date answered:
22 March 2021
Crown Estate Scotland will publish the Supply Chain Development Statement commitments made by developers at a later date to be confirmed in due course, given the extension to the application process resulting from the current review.
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Date answered:
10 March 2021
The Strategic Framework Update set out a plan for easing of restrictions based on data rather than dates. The Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Restrictions and Requirements) (Local Levels) (Scotland) Regulations 2020 require that driving lessons (unless all occupants are members of the same household) and driving tests cease in an area under protection leve...
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Date answered:
25 February 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-33980 by Jeanne Freeman on 14 January 2021, whether it will confirm by what date all people entitled to the £500 bonus for health and social care staff will have received their payment.
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Date answered:
3 December 2020
The Scottish Government has provided CalMac Ferries Ltd with additional funding of £17,587,000 to date in this financial year, which has enabled them to respond to the financial pressures arising from the COVID-19 pandemic.