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When someone applies for a Scottish benefit, there is also a duty on Scottish Ministers (i.e Social Security Scotland) to inform the applicant of any other Scottish social security that they may be eligible for.iiSection 53, Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 Social Security Scotland's ‘pre-claims support service’ will provide face to face support locally....
This timing is to enable the report to feed into pre-budget scrutiny processes.
This is the most recent monitoring report - Climate Change Plan: monitoring reports - 2021 compendium.
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The Official Controls (Temporary Measures) (Coronavirus) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2021
In the immediate run up to and during the pre-election recess period it was agreed with Parliamentary officials that if Scottish Ministers were asked to consent to UK SIs containing devolved provision during this period that initially the UK Govern...
For example following the Equality and Human Rights Committee’s pre-budget scrutiny in 2019,which included a focus on the NPF and relevant statistical indicators, the Scottish Government indicated that it had increased the Equality and Human Rights budget to £30.2 million (from £24.6m in 2019-20) “representing our commitment to embedding equality, inclusion...
These are sickness, maternity and paternity, invalidity, old-age, survivors, accidents at work and occupational diseases, death grants, unemployment and pre-retirement benefits.
However, within these categories several benefits are specifically excluded by Article SSC - 3.
While these issues have been exacerbated and further highlighted by the impact of Brexit and Covid-19, these issues pre-date these events.
In 2020/1 we carried out a short inquiry examining the impact of Covid-19 on the Further and Higher Education Sector, including an immediate examination of the return of students following the Christmas break.
Even more importantly, it will be important to monitor what trade doesn’t take place anymore because it has become economically unviable, so a close examination of trade, pre- and post-Covid, in different sectors would be illuminating.
The effect of the changes proposed would be that an assessor could be appointed in any case where objections have been lodged to a Private (or Hybrid) Bill, whether or not it is a "works" Bill. (At present, the only pre-condition is that it is a works Bill, and not that objections have been lodged to it, but in practice there would be no reason to appoint a...
Committee reports
Date published:
23 February 2021
forceDownload=true page 47The FAI commented in a pre-budget blog that “this policy could cost upwards of £80 million” but “with no clear rationale, the government would be wise to conclude that this is a manifesto commitment worth breaking.” https://fraserofallander.org/budget-2021-22-five-things-to-watch-for/
For 2021-22 (as will have been the case in 2020-21), it is expected that, due to lockdowns and other measures aimed at slowing the spread of COVID-19, income from sales, fees and charges will be much lower than in other years - COSLA suggested that this could be as much as £90 million in its pre-Budget document, Respect our communities: protect our funding1...