This search includes all content on the Scottish Parliament website, except for Votes and Motions. All Official Reports (what has been said in Parliament) and Questions and Answers are available from 1999. You can refine your search by adding and removing filters.
The Scottish Government’s Equality and Fairer Scotland Budget Statement recognises that the effects of COVID-19 “layer on top of existing structural imbalances and are predicted to be particularly severe for people on low incomes.”ivhttps://www.gov.scot/publications/scottish-budget-2021-2022-equality-fairer-scotland-budget-statement/ page 57As well as a disproportionately higher rate of positive cases and mortality “they are more likely to experience poorer underlying mental and physical health and are also more likely to be in insecure work without financial reserves.”ivhttps://www.gov.scot/publications/scottish-budget-2021-2022-equality-fairer-scotland-budget-statement/ page 57
Our Adviser identifies four challenges which both the Scottish Government and the Parliament will need to consider moving forward—
Differential impacts of the crisis across age, income and education groups;
Differential impacts of the crisis across places;
The major impact on learning, especially for children from deprived backgrounds;
The unwinding of business support measures and more targeted support.
Retrieved from <a href="https://www.transport.gov.scot/media/48839/nts-delivery-plan-2020-2022.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.transport.gov.scot/media/48839/nts-delivery-plan-2020-2022.pdf</a> [accessed 31 December 2020] .
Official Report of Meeting 13 December 2022
Engagement
The Committee agreed it was important for its consideration of the petition to hear from individuals who had experienced conversion practices.
I have recently been involved in discussions between the Royal Bank of Scotland, Age Scotland and others about the impact of branch closures in South Scotland.
Let us say that a rate increase is announced by the monetary policy committee, it happens immediately and banks and mortgage providers within days or weeks change those mortgage rates.
Questions and Answers
Date lodged:
21 October 2020
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of showpeople being added to the 2022 census, what action it will take to ensure that their children will be added to the SEEMiS educational records in schools.