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Non-Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Government Actuary's Department

Mar. 28 2024

Source Page: Climate scientists and actuaries show the sting in climate’s tail
Document: ‘Climate Scorpion – the sting is in the tail’ (PDF)

Found: Actuaries take extreme risk seriously and have developed practical tools for managing it.


Scottish Government Publication (Progress report)
Environment and Forestry Directorate

Mar. 28 2024

Source Page: Environment Strategy: progress report - March 2024
Document: The Environment Strategy for Scotland: Progress report on Environment Strategy March 2024 (PDF)

Found: discrimination International: We are open, connected and make a positive contribution internationally Poverty


Scottish Parliament Debate - Main Chamber
General Question Time - Thu 28 Mar 2024

Mentions:
1: Harvie, Patrick (Green - Glasgow) act responsibly from then on, there could—without action—have been cases of tenants facing sudden, extreme - Speech Link
2: Stewart, Kevin (SNP - Aberdeen Central) To ask the Scottish Government how many children in Aberdeen have been lifted out of poverty since the - Speech Link
3: McLennan, Paul (SNP - East Lothian) Those steps would lift 40,000 children in Scotland out of poverty next year.The First Minister wrote - Speech Link


Scottish Parliament Debate - Main Chamber
Public Transport (Fair Fares Review) - Thu 28 Mar 2024

Mentions:
1: Hyslop, Fiona (SNP - Linlithgow) the detail in it.Public transport is central to delivering the First Minister’s missions to tackle poverty - Speech Link
2: Simpson, Graham (Con - Central Scotland) who are living in poverty in rural areas, where bus fares are higher. - Speech Link
3: Wishart, Beatrice (LD - Shetland Islands) As the cabinet secretary mentioned earlier, it is about enabling travel for people in poverty. - Speech Link


Scottish Parliament Select Committee
Letter from the Minister for Social Care, Mental Wellbeing and Sport to the HSCS Convener concerning the Stage 1 report of the National Care Service (Scotland) Bill, 28 March 2024
National Care Service (Scotland) Bill Stage 1 report full response

Correspondence Mar. 28 2024

Committee: Health, Social Care and Sport Committee

Found: Given the extreme pressures currently being faced by the social care sector, the Committee seeks further


Departmental Publication (Policy paper)
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mar. 27 2024

Source Page: Work and Opportunities for Women (WOW) programme: building women’s economic empowerment into climate transitions
Document: Work and Opportunities for Women (WOW): building women’s economic empowerment into climate transitions, March 2024 (PDF)

Found: FCDO defines inclusive green growth as simultaneously achieving poverty reduction, social inclusion,


Departmental Publication (Policy paper)
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mar. 27 2024

Source Page: Work and Opportunities for Women (WOW) programme: international climate finance and gender security
Document: Work and Opportunities for Women (WOW) programme: international climate finance and gender security. Integrating gender in the design of scaled-up or new British High Commission Tanzania programmes, March 2024 (PDF)

Found: (Gender Equality) Act 2014 States that development assistance should “contribute to reducing poverty


Non-Departmental Publication (Statistics)
Low Pay Commission

Mar. 27 2024

Source Page: The National Minimum Wage Beyond 2024
Document: The National Minimum Wage Beyond 2024 (PDF)

Found: In its First Report (Low Pay Commission, 1998 ), the Commission heard many examples of extreme low pay


Scottish Government Publication (Research and analysis)
Tackling Child Poverty and Social Justice Directorate

Mar. 27 2024

Source Page: Social Security Experience Panels: Pension Age Winter Heating Payment
Document: Social Security Experience Panels: Pension Age Winter Heating Payment (PDF)

Found: EQUALITY, POVERTY AND SOCIAL SECURITY researchsocial Social Security Experience Panels: Pension Age Winter


Lords Chamber
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
2nd reading - Wed 27 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lord Stunell (LD - Life peer) The idea that it is not appropriate, timely or sensible to tackle that seems strange in the extreme and - Speech Link
2: Lord Khan of Burnley (Lab - Life peer) The Government’s poverty of ambition has real implications for leaseholders being routinely gouged by - Speech Link