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I do not think that it would be a bad thing to restrict the type of crazy-jobs credit facility that is the bane of the lives of many poor communities, offering televisions for a pound that cost £300 in the long run.
It showed that, after five years of a Labour Government, one third of the children in Scotland are still living in poverty. The Executive's objective is to reduce the number of children living in poverty by 50 per cent by 2010.
In evidence at stage 1, concerns were raised that this would allow for means-testing of those benefits that are currently not means-tested, including disability living allowance and winter fuel payments.
In Denmark in 2005, only one adult with DMD over the age of 23 did not live in his own home; in Scotland that year, only one adult with DMD lived in his own home.