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From 1 July 2023, all public sector grants will include a requirement to pay at least the Real Living Wage to all employees, and provide appropriate channels for effective voice.
S6W-22093 Miles Briggs: To ask the Scottish Government what range of benefits or grants are available to assist people with sight loss to live independently at home, including aids, equipment and adaptations.
A detailed explanation of the Bill’s purpose can be found in the Policy Memorandum, which also sets out the policy intentions underpinning it and the relationship of the Bill to the wider programme of work to complete devolution of forestry.
S5W-28091 Jackie Baillie: To ask the Scottish Government for what reason the self-catering tourism sector has been excluded from grant assistance from the Business Support Fund that has been set up to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak.
Ten of the eleven benefits devolved by the Scotland Act 2016 are categorised in the bill into seven types of assistance:
carer’s assistance (s.11)
cold-spell heating assistance (s.12)
winter heating assistance (s.13)
disability assistance (s.14)
early years assistance (s.15)
employment-injury assistance (s.16)
funeral expense assistance (s.17).
NHS Forth Valley has agreed with Scottish Government colleagues a whole system Urgent & Unscheduled Care Collaborative plan with implementation work commenced. A refocussed programme of priority workstreams has been developed with dedicated Programme Management support.
It has been such a successful programme. We have managed to help over ten thousand people benefit for a break, £1.3 million spent on social tourism breaks, over three thousand breaks taken and two hundred and twenty-nine participating businesses that had taken part in the programme.
It has been such a successful programme. We have managed to help over ten thousand people benefit for a break, £1.3 million spent on social tourism breaks, over three thousand breaks taken and two hundred and twenty-nine participating businesses that had taken part in the programme.