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To ask the Scottish Government what (a) meetings and (b) correspondence there have been between (i) the First Minister, (ii) the Deputy First Minister, (iii) each cabinet secretary and (iv) the Minister for Youth Employment and the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions regarding welfare reform; on what dates and what substantive issues were raised.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
18 September 2012
It sets out the Scottish Government’s support for microgeneration, our ambitions for the sector and the successes and key actions we have taken to date across a range of policies: planning, building regulation, skills, housing and fuel poverty.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
25 April 2012
The Scottish Government intends to consult shortly on proposals for a land transaction tax to be introduced in April 2015, in the expectation that the current system of Stamp Duty Land Tax will be withdrawn from that date in Scotland. We will consider the question of tax rates in due course.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
23 March 2012
However, we acknowledge that this is a challenging timetable and that there is a real possibility of the new policy, including detailed EU implementing rules and approved new rural development programmes, not being completed by that date. We are also aware that there were problems over transitional arrangements between the end of the last and beginning of t...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
28 February 2012
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have received incorrect home energy reports from the Energy Saving Trust as a result of a computer malfunction and when the problem will be resolved. To date, the Energy Saving Trust have received around 90 complaints from customers about obvious inaccuracies in their Home Energy Checks (HECs) that are due prim...
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Date answered:
11 January 2012
A similar risk to that reported in Finland and Sweden has not been confirmed to date in other countries, including the UK, and further studies are ongoing to assess this association.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
10 January 2012
Such matters are for negotiation between an employer, the staff concerned and their representatives. To date the impact on the provision of learning and skills services to prisons has been limited to a reduction in services at two sites on the 8 December, following industrial action by EIS members.