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The other aspect also relates to elections. The receipt of a poll card is often the trigger for someone to say, “I’m not registered,” especially if their partner or someone else in the household has received a card but they have not.
The minister has quite a list of things to come back to us on, so we look forward to being in receipt of that information after the summer recess, so that we can carry out proper scrutiny of the bill.
The distribution has recently been changed to—I have the figures here—35 per cent of children aged zero to 18 in low-income families, 35 per cent of children in receipt of Scottish child payments and 30 per cent of the zero-to-18 general population.
I think that the proposal is that someone would have to be in receipt of treatment. That is why the choice is whether to restrict access to the moratorium, because of the difficulty of defining who should get it.
We would also like to see those who are in receipt of carers allowance or carer support payment and who are going to lose their entitlement, such as those who are approaching the state pension age, being sent information much further in advance of losing that entitlement.
We now have over 300,000 children in receipt of the Scottish child payment and, in total, we have paid over £240 million since it was launched in February 2021.
I do not want to labour the point about public debt, but I go back to some of the work that we have done over the past year and highlight that 80,000 low-income families with children across Scotland who are in receipt of universal credit are currently having deductions from their monthly income.
We absolutely agree that it is not just about the qualifications body, but about the implications for those who are delivering qualifications, those who are in receipt of that learning and those who are receiving qualifications.
It may be that we will be able to share more detail about any action that the Government might be able to take once we are in receipt of the advice. It is a deeply concerning and worrying time for the University of Dundee’s staff, given the extent of the proposed job losses.
S6W-44070 Miles Briggs: To ask the Scottish Government how many patients have opted to not attend an appointment following receipt of a text message in each of the last five years, broken down by NHS board.