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We therefore requested that the Scottish Government should carry out reviews of the fiscal sustainability of social security spending, the extent to which the level of social security assistance provided supports economic activity, and the spending and outcomes arising from universal payments and services.
Dr Vuolajärvi told us “there was a scare effect, and then activity continued".
On the question of the scale of any reduction in demand, Dr Niina Vuolajärvi told us that in Sweden a study showed that after the law was introduced, the proportion of people reporting buying sex went from 13 to 8 per cent.
Dr Niina Vuolajärvi, Assistant Professor in International Migration at the LSE European Institute, noted in her written submission that quashing these historic convictions would “remove barriers to social and economic participation for those who have been criminalized for survival activities".
The written responses to the Call for Views from those with live...
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report was published in 2023. It is clear that human activities "have unequivocally caused global warming", and that global GHG emissions continue to increase due to "unsustainable energy use, land use and land-use change, lifestyles and patterns of consumption and production across reg...
The changes to EFAs are being developed by the Scottish Government alongside wider reforms to Tier 2 Enhanced payments, which the policy note explains "has the clear purpose of incentivising and supporting agricultural businesses to undertake best practices and/or actions that actively improve nature and climate outcomes, that are consistent with the transi...
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Visitor behaviour policy.
If the political will is there to drive national objectives through local provision, then the Scottish Government can utilise the precedence of Active Schools as a model of national / local practice.