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The Official Report is a written record of public meetings of the Parliament and committees.  

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Dates of parliamentary sessions
  1. Session 1: 12 May 1999 to 31 March 2003
  2. Session 2: 7 May 2003 to 2 April 2007
  3. Session 3: 9 May 2007 to 22 March 2011
  4. Session 4: 11 May 2011 to 23 March 2016
  5. Session 5: 12 May 2016 to 5 May 2021
  6. Current session: 12 May 2021 to 6 August 2025
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Social Justice and Social Security Committee [Draft]

Financial Considerations When Leaving an Abusive Relationship

Meeting date: 1 May 2025

Jeremy Balfour

We would like to keep the victim/survivor in their permanent home, rather than their having to move out. In your experience, how realistic is that, and what needs to happen to make it more realistic?

I do not know who wants to jump in there. Lyndsay, I will pick on you.

Social Justice and Social Security Committee [Draft]

Financial Considerations When Leaving an Abusive Relationship

Meeting date: 1 May 2025

Jeremy Balfour

Thank you. It would be helpful if you could provide that. Lyndsay Clelland, do you have anything to add?

Social Justice and Social Security Committee [Draft]

Financial Considerations When Leaving an Abusive Relationship

Meeting date: 1 May 2025

Jeremy Balfour

That is helpful. To what extent are discretionary housing payments a useful fund to assist those leaving an abusive partner? Do they work in practice?

Social Justice and Social Security Committee [Draft]

Financial Considerations When Leaving an Abusive Relationship

Meeting date: 1 May 2025

Jeremy Balfour

Thank you both for coming. How effective is the Scottish welfare fund as emergency funding for people who are experiencing domestic abuse, and what are your views on the new guidance?

Social Justice and Social Security Committee [Draft]

Financial Considerations When Leaving an Abusive Relationship

Meeting date: 1 May 2025

Jeremy Balfour

Thank you. That is very helpful.

To move on to the issue of housing, what are the implications for victims/survivors of the current availability and cost of housing and refuge places, and what needs to change?

09:30  

Social Justice and Social Security Committee [Draft]

Financial Considerations When Leaving an Abusive Relationship

Meeting date: 1 May 2025

Jeremy Balfour

Good morning. Before I move on to another area, I want to go back to Jenn Glinski on the child maintenance service issue. I am interested to know whether the issue is structural due to the way that it was set up or whether it relates to the legislation that was passed to bring it in. Can procedures be changed or are the issues that your clients face more structural?

Social Justice and Social Security Committee [Draft]

Financial Considerations When Leaving an Abusive Relationship

Meeting date: 1 May 2025

Jeremy Balfour

Lee, do you want to comment from a local authority perspective?

Social Justice and Social Security Committee [Draft]

Financial Considerations When Leaving an Abusive Relationship

Meeting date: 1 May 2025

Jeremy Balfour

Stuart, do you have anything to add?

Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee [Draft]

Leases (Automatic Continuation etc) (Scotland) Bill

Meeting date: 29 April 2025

Jeremy Balfour

I will have one more bite of the cherry and push a wee bit further. Despite the issues that have been raised by different parties on the complexity of the new rules on giving notice, will the rules work quite well in practice, once they get going and everyone is used to them?

Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee [Draft]

Leases (Automatic Continuation etc) (Scotland) Bill

Meeting date: 29 April 2025

Jeremy Balfour

I will pick up on your final point. You said at the very start, and it is obvious, that the law is complex at the moment, and part of the aim of the bill is to try to simplify the law for practitioners and for tenants and small businesses, but I think that section 4 and section 5 leave some ambiguity. You just said that you do not think that those provisions could be drafted any more clearly. Will you explain why?