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I remind the committee that, in 2023, extra money was given by the Scottish Government, and NHS Highland chose to use it for closed-loop therapy mainly for adults.
Questions and Answers
Date lodged:
22 November 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to calls from Age Scotland and others to improve plans for the new Pension Age Disability Payment by including extra mobility and travel support for recipients.
For example, we have recently recruited a large number of extra compliance officers—I will use the term “tax inspectors”—but it takes many years to train a tax inspector.
When a distressed customer needs to replace a gas boiler—say that their boiler has given up and winter is approaching, or it is winter—if a hydrogen-ready boiler is available on the market for at most a modest extra cost and hopefully no extra cost, that would provide flexibility.
‘Book-ending’ the formal evidence with engagement with the members of the participant group added extra dimension to scrutiny and giving participants more meaningful engagement across the whole process.