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Low-income Families (Best Start Foods) To ask the Scottish Government how best start foods has supported children and families who are living on a low income.
In terms of the actual social security spend, we are not sure which areas of policy are having the best possible impact—for example, on child poverty—and which aspects of increased spending are almost having the opposite effect, in that they are not providing the benefits.
I worked with the legislation team on the best way to approach this and we felt that amending the 2005 act to include an aggravation in relation to the use of fireworks was the best way to go about it.
We also incurred additional costs such as those from the air ambulance enhancements. Our best estimate is that non-pay costs amounted to an extra £6 million.
I think that that was in the letter that we originally sent to the committee. I think that we are in the best place that we can be in, in respect of the bill.