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Departmental Publication (Transparency)
Cabinet Office

Jun. 14 2024

Source Page: The King's Birthday Honours List 2024
Document: (webpage)

Found: For services to Promoting Period Dignity and Raising Awareness of Free Period Products in Scotland Eye


Departmental Publication (Transparency)
Cabinet Office

Jun. 14 2024

Source Page: The King's Birthday Honours List 2024
Document: (PDF)

Found: For services to Promoting Period Dignity and Raising Awareness of Free Period Products in Scotland


Departmental Publication (Transparency)
Cabinet Office

Jun. 14 2024

Source Page: The King's Birthday Honours List 2024
Document: (PDF)

Found: local businesses to donate surplus goods to local charities, school and health services, reducing both poverty


Scottish Parliament Debate - Main Chamber
European Structural and Investment Funds - Thu 13 Jun 2024

Mentions:
1: Forbes, Kate (SNP - Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch) Projects have helped to tackle poverty, including child poverty, and 18 local authorities have used the - Speech Link
2: Forbes, Kate (SNP - Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch) There are other examples, such as initiatives to deal with poverty for which match funding has not been - Speech Link
3: Forbes, Kate (SNP - Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch) In the first round, the UK Government allocated £212 million to Scotland over a three-year period, whereas - Speech Link


Scottish Parliament Debate - Main Chamber
Public Service Investment - Thu 13 Jun 2024

Mentions:
1: Robison, Shona (SNP - Dundee City East) out of poverty”across the UK and 10,000 children in Scotland overnight. - Speech Link
2: Smith, Liz (Con - Mid Scotland and Fife) has not placed nearly enough emphasis on economic growth, especially during the Bute house agreement period - Speech Link
3: Macpherson, Ben (SNP - Edinburgh Northern and Leith) therefore remarkable, in my opinion, that the Scottish Government has delivered such progress in the period - Speech Link
4: Duncan-Glancy, Pam (Lab - Glasgow) It will tackle tax avoidance to tackle poverty. - Speech Link


Scottish Parliament Debate - Committee
Pre-budget Scrutiny 2025-26 - Wed 12 Jun 2024

Mentions:
1: None Going to college takes people out of poverty, makes them contribute economically and gives them an education - Speech Link
2: None The long period of uncertainty about last year’s funding and the decision whether it would continue into - Speech Link
3: None The First Minister’s priorities—eradicating child poverty, addressing net zero and increasing economic - Speech Link
4: Greer, Ross (Green - West Scotland) In the intervening period, we are locked into another round of national industrial action over a pay - Speech Link
5: None Looking at the long term, the budgets for colleges over a 10-year period have declined in real terms - Speech Link


Scottish Parliament Debate - Main Chamber
Child Poverty - Tue 11 Jun 2024

Mentions:
1: O'Kane, Paul (Lab - West Scotland) given the particular challenges that have resulted from cuts to local government funding during the period - Speech Link
2: Chapman, Maggie (Green - North East Scotland) In 1999, the Child Poverty Action Group published a book called “Poverty First Hand”, which was based - Speech Link
3: Stevenson, Collette (SNP - East Kilbride) iota”—[Official Report, Social Justice and Social Security Committee, 23 May 2024; c 8.]over Labour’s period - Speech Link
4: Mochan, Carol (Lab - South Scotland) progress on tackling child poverty. - Speech Link
5: Somerville, Shirley-Anne (SNP - Dunfermline) As we are currently in a pre-election period, we are limited in what we can say on those issues, but - Speech Link


Scottish Parliament Debate - Committee
Disability Commissioner (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1 - Tue 11 Jun 2024

Mentions:
1: None We have documented digital poverty. - Speech Link
2: None For example, many wonderful anti-poverty organisations are doing great campaigns and have online tools - Speech Link
3: None Where they have done focused work, they have maybe done one report in a period of 10 years.If you look - Speech Link
4: None and published—of what each commissioner is planning and what their key priorities are over a certain period - Speech Link


Scottish Parliament Debate - Committee
Housing (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1 - Tue 11 Jun 2024

Mentions:
1: None It is a social change organisation that is trying to solve poverty and help us to move to a more just - Speech Link
2: None A third of private rented sector tenants are in poverty and a great many more are experiencing considerable - Speech Link
3: Coffey, Willie (SNP - Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley) According to your research, a third of renters live in poverty. - Speech Link
4: None One in three renters in the private rented sector lives in poverty. - Speech Link


Scottish Parliament Debate - Committee
Social Care (Self-directed Support) (Scotland) Act 2013 (Post-legislative Scrutiny) - Tue 11 Jun 2024

Mentions:
1: None under the 2013 act and receives a package of care moves to another local authority area, there is a period - Speech Link
2: None That is why there is the 12-week period for us to carry out a new assessment to see how someone’s outcomes - Speech Link