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To ask the Scottish Government by what date the Universal Credit flexibility in Scotland that allows the mitigation of the so-called spare room subsidy at source will be fully operational.
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Date answered:
14 March 2018
Through the collective efforts of the forestry sector it remains the case that Ramorum has, to-date, been detected in only 1% of the 59,000 hectares of larch outwith the Management Zone.
Existing benefits will not transfer at the point at which the UK Government lays commencement regulations this spring, but at a later date or dates, as yet undecided, but no later than 1 April 2020.
I will therefore ask my officials to undertake some work on this and will contact you again once this has been concluded”, by what date the survey of comparative data will be concluded.
Over the past year, we have launched new programmes on health and inclusive education, from new strategic education partnerships with the World Bank to support at a very local level for girls and learners with disabilities to better access school, and from a new strategic partnership with the World Health Organization on non-communicable diseases to develop...
In the Minister's letter to the Committee, dated 15 May 2025, she explained that it was not appropriate to make a comparison with the statutory offence of breach of the peace as the section 38 offence is not an example of common law being directly replaced by a statutory offence.
Interviewee O2 also noted that they did not think the work had achieved much substantially, although they suggested it would have given the Scottish Government a bit of a nudge. However, to date the committee is not aware of progress being made in this area (Interview O2).
Retrieved from https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-10174/ researchers at the House of Commons Library have published a briefing called Flexible Working (dated 9 September 2024).1Cunningham, S., Brione, P., & Zaidi, K. (2024, September 9).