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Child Poverty To ask the First Minister what concerns the Scottish Executive has regarding child poverty. (S1F-2121) I want to live in a Scotland that is full of opportunities and I want those opportunities to be open to all children.
He was too ashamed to tell the police or anyone else so he went round to his old mum and got her to patch him up every time. A small percentage of men do live in fear of violence. We must accept that there is a minority of horrible women as well as a minority of horrible men and that the male sex overall certainly does not deserve to be demonised.
They receive housing on a no-choice basis and are issued with vouchers and a small amount of cash for immediate living needs. The Home Secretary recently announced that vouchers will be replaced by cash from early April.
That underlines our approach to treatment and rehabilitation to enable drug users to put their drug problems behind them and lead normal lives. We are improving services that provide training and education to help that to happen.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
20 September 2006
Conversely, any income measure which does not deduct housing costs will overstate the living standards of individuals whose housing costs are high relative to the quality of their accommodation.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
12 December 2005
While the full information requested is not held centrally, the latest figures from the Scottish Renal Registry suggest that 90% of patients live within 30 minutes travel time of their dialysis unit.