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Provisions in the Bill
Under the provisions in the Bill, the single financial guidance body would have the following functions (see clause 3):
to provide free, impartial information and guidance on occupational and personal pensions;
to provide free, impartial debt advice in England only;
to provide free, impartial information and guidance designed to enha...
The vast majority of those companies are in the agriculture sector, followed by the fishing sector, then food and drink manufacturing and processing, which accounts for only about 6 per cent of the company base, but generates 75 per cent of the gross value added and is responsible for almost 100 per cent of exports.
Background
In January 2013, the Scottish Government introduced measures by way of the principal Regulations to reduce the council tax liability of people who have a low income. Following the UK Government's abolition of council tax benefit from April 2013, people who were previously in receipt of council tax benefit received an equivalent reduction in liabi...
In evidence to the Committee Assistant Chief Constable Higgins explained that Police Scotland intends to provide railway policing training for all its officers, as follows:
we will run an upskilling programme for existing officers; in addition, we will extend the initial probationary period for every new recruit to Police Scotland from 11 weeks to 13 or 14 ...
Using the powers would be very expensive to follow through on. They are not a one off fix; if we go into a section 8 we are probably in for the long haul; we are not in today and out tomorrow.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
16 December 2008
There could be significant savings for following years. Do you accept that you are a good way down the road already this year, having reduced the number of support staff to that extent?
Enjoyment of property claims could follow, so I am not sure that going down that route would take away from some of the big rows that there might be in court cases.