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I am a local authority councillor for Midlothian Council, for which I receive between £15,000 and £20,000 per year, but I have arranged to waive my salary from the date of my election to the Parliament.
Questions and Answers
Date lodged:
17 September 2014
That became even more apparent to me when I had a preparatory meeting with Kennedy Foster of the Council of Mortgage Lenders and Kate Marshall of the Lloyds banking group before we started to deal with the bill.
They might be really efficient in the way in which they are recruiting and deploying volunteers, or in their use of time banking, informal supports or sheltered housing complexes for communal purposes to support more vulnerable people.
In Shetland, Enviroglass provides a local solution for Shetland’s waste glass by recycling all the glass that is collected by the local authority through its bottle banks. That has been essential in minimising the financial and environmental costs that shipping glass to mainland UK for recycling would incur.
Am I right in hearing you as saying that, after a certain date, we will be in the new regime and that up to that point—and this will probably relate to the date of the sequestration—we will be in the previous regime?
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
7 September 2011
As pre-Covid work patterns started to return in 2022, the absurdity of spending £30 a day to travel from Edinburgh to Glasgow hit home for many workers.