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The maximum discount for the water charges reduction scheme (available to households which are in receipt of council tax reduction) has increased to 35% - up from 25% and I refer the member to the answer to S6W-06329 on 10 March 2022 for further information on measures to assist domestic customers.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
24 February 2022
We will provide an update to the Education, Children and Young People Committee in due course, subject to receipt of local authority returns. S6W-06357
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
22 December 2021
We remain committed to delivering the Scottish Child Payment for children and young people aged 6-15 by the end of 2022, subject to receipt of the necessary data from DWP, at which point more than 400,000 children will be eligible.
NRS analyses provides valuable information on characteristics of the deceased as well as presentation at Health Board and Local Authority level. Following receipt of a FOI request for data at individual care home level, NRS carefully considered the potential public benefit of providing care home level data against the potential distress the public release ...
The most recent statistics were published on 23 rd February 2021 and covered carers in receipt of Carer’s Allowance Supplement to the October 2020 eligibility date.
We know that it is a particular problem as we go into the lambing season, and the Scottish outdoor access code sets out how to exercise rights and responsibilities when walking dogs in the countryside.
Scottish Information Commissioner Ruling To ask the First Minister whether the Scottish Government will comply with the Scottish Information Commissioner’s ruling that files relating to James Hamilton’s investigation into whether the former First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, broke the ministerial code must be published by 22 January 2026.
The member is right to say that the council has been in receipt of strategic waste grants to pay for the services that were previously delivered under the PFI.
In November the eligibility criteria were expanded to include young people aged 16 to 18 and in receipt of the enhanced rate of the daily living component of Personal Independence Payment.
Scottish Government response: CAS is paid automatically to all those in receipt of Carer’s Allowance on a set date so all those in receipt of CA will automatically receive CAS too.