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 first Delivery Plan due under the Child Poverty (Scotland) Act covers the period 1 April 2018 to 31 March 2022, and will set out the Scottish Governments action to make significant progress towards the challenging interim targets set for 2023-24.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
15 November 2017
The Scottish Government’s Ferries Plan 2013-2022, published in December 2012, was clear that introducing Road Equivalent Tariff (RET) at that time or in the next few years would mean an increase on a range of available fares.
Their strategic priorities are set out in their Strategic Housing Investment Plan 2017-2022, available on their website and includes a development of 26 units on the Isle of Arran.
Many cannot apply for support from the Scottish Government’s hardship fund, because they do not meet the requirement to have a business bank account. Incidentally, that has never been a requirement of Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs to prove that a B and B is operating as a business or been recognised as a way of preventing fraud.
The decline in footfall for that business started when the banks pulled out of town. The people from the surrounding areas who went to Laurencekirk to use a bank would frequent the shop.