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That is why we must encourage people—young women in particular—into school and further and higher education. As the World Bank’s chief economist has noted, an investment in women’s education could potentially provide the highest return available.
In January 1911, Winston Churchill attended the siege of Sidney Street, where Latvian revolutionaries—who had been conducting a series of bank raids—had holed themselves up. Special branch and the Army were there to dig them out.
On our database, we have approximate dates for when properties became empty, so we have an idea of properties that have been empty for a longer period of time.
In weekend 4 in 2013, there were 66; this year, there were 25, and that was because it was a long public holiday—St Andrew’s day—weekend. The numbers that we are talking about, comparing 2013 with 2017, have reduced by 400 per cent or so.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
20 March 2013
We are working together with the European Investment Bank to secure funding support through the successful bidders which provides value for money for both schemes.
The Committee also notes the Cabinet Secretary's assertion that the £42m funding for the new agency in 2022/23 would provide an overall increase in funding for the area.
Retrieved from https://www.gov.scot/publications/framework-tax-2021/ [accessed 15 December 2022] and sets out the Scottish Government’s approach to tax over the medium term across the devolved and local tax system.
The Scottish Government’s response also reflects, and the Committee agrees, that it is not normally acceptable to combine, in one instrument, provisions made under a power to make “regulations” and provisions made under a power to make an "order".vThe last example of an instrument considered by the Committee in which types of instrument were combined was the Traffic Signs Amendment (Scotland) Regulations and General Directions 2022 (SSI 2022...
The Scottish Government’s response also reflects, and the Committee agrees, that it is not normally acceptable to combine, in one instrument, provisions made under a power to make “regulations” and provisions made under a power to make an "order".vThe last example of an instrument considered by the Committee in which types of instrument were combined was the Traffic Signs Amendment (Scotland) Regulations and General Directions 2022 (SSI 2022...
Overview of the Bill
The Data Protection and Digital Information (No.2) Bill (“the Bill”) is the second iteration of a UK Government Bill introduced initially in Westminster on 18 July 2022. The Bill was paused and then subsequently introduced again in the House of Commons on 8 March 2023.