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Our aim, however, will be to maintain front-line activities, marketing and events programmes, and to try and find efficiencies behind the scenes in order to meet the deficit.
The Fuel Poverty Forum will consider the options offered under stage 4 as part of its review of the first year in operation of the Energy Assistance Package. S3W-30069
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
16 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how many recipients of financial assistance under the preference waiver payment scheme were placed in a local authority area adjoining the area from which they made their applications for assistance.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
21 January 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether, in the event of prison staff needing assistance to deal with internal violent incidents, it is normal practice for staff to be deployed from other prisons to provide such assistance.
There is a very clear agenda at play in some parts of social media to name the women, and I do not think that the committee or I should be involved in assisting that. Okay. Thank you, Mr Murrell.
When the committee and Parliament discussed the issue in relation to schools, it was mentioned that COSLA had tried to assess the level of need—how many laptops would be required and how many families would require assistance with setting up a home broadband connection, for example.
I suppose that one has to have the ability to drive projects forward and the framework that they can prosper within, as well as the political will to push those forward or assist in pushing them forward. That is a fair question, which I will answer broadly.
Bigger and more complex benefits are coming down the track—for example, around 350,000 people will receive some form of disability assistance. On the specific issue of carers allowance, most of the forecast error was due to our forecasting the cost of that benefit for an entire year.