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To ask the Scottish Executive what representations the Student Awards Agency for Scotland has made to the UK Government on the operation of the UK ID card scheme in relation to students applying for student loans and bank accounts. The Student AwardsAgency for Scotland has made no representations to the UK Governmenton the operation of the UK ID card scheme in relation to students applying forstudent loans.Personal details requiredto allow students to open bank accounts are a matter for each individual bank.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
13 September 2007
The Scottish Government’sneeds based methodology for distributing the core support for local government takesinto account a number of indicators of need.
The assumed rent level is normally significantly higher than the rent that can be charged in the local area and takes no account of wage levels or ability to pay.
If I was an employee of the organisation, not only would I not be keen to relocate, I would wonder what future lay ahead, because there is a cultural issue concerning Young's, which employees have to consider carefully.
The DPP was asked by the now Supreme Court to say what the factors were that would be taken into account in deciding whether a particular prosecution should go ahead.
It seems inconceivable that a facility that has so much expertise and which delivers a service that, from all accounts and from my own personal experience, is second to none should suffer.
We are also associated with a strong sense of fairness—that no one should be held back or favourably advanced simply on account of their birth or social status.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
20 November 2008