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If Mr Lockhart has not had the opportunity to meet her, I will encourage her to meet him and explain the progress of the bank’s work. It will be using its patient capital to support businesses.
It is completely unacceptable that, somehow, people from across Scotland do not go on holiday. That is a crass argument. I thought that the Green Party would have welcomed the fact that we want to extend the scheme to modern apprentices and to young people on a jobs grant.
It has also exposed health and safety breaches, a culture of harassment, failure to pay holiday pay, the use of umbrella companies and workers being allowed on site without appropriate safety accreditation.
Perhaps when the Government fails to meet its annual targets, it will just need to grab a few acres from that land bank, to make up for areas where the targets are being missed, and it will then meet its headline targets.
Scotland will receive £449m in 2020/2021, and £24m in 2021/2022.
Implications for Scotland
The Bill and Devolved Policy
The UK Government is proposing that this legislation should cover the whole of the UK, including Scotland.
I am not able to provide too much more information on that today, because we are committed to timescales in the Good Food Nation (Scotland) Act 2022 in relation to when a good food nation plan will be introduced.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
21 February 2020
The gap between the date people can first apply for the Scottish Child Payment and the eligibility date should give Social Security Scotland the opportunity to process the majority of the expected applications before the eligibility date.
(a) find the total number of hours worked by all the employees of the person in the 28 days ending with the date on which the communication was made, (b) divide that number by 140.