that call, our representation has been ignored, and payments of this benefit will be delivered by the dwp to eligible pensioners to help with their fuel bill this winter. presiding officer, unfortunately this means once again we are in a position where the scottish government is having to mitigate the impact of the uk government�*s damaging decision on a social security policy, there has been changed, but that change is that we are now mitigating against a labour government and not a tory one. presiding officer, the scottish government provides a wide range of heating cost to our pensioners, for example, our winter heating payments from guarantees a annual payment, unlike the uk government�*s cold weather payments it does not do this. regardless of the certain circumstances. we also continue our... last year provided support to 30,000 children, young people and their families who had higher energy costs needs due to disability health conditions. this benefit is not available elsewhere in the uk. meanwhile, our more homes in scotland, our area —based schemes helping people experiencing pov

miniature pensions, n d met emma _ dwp miniature pensions, n d met emma reynolds.— the uk. and ten times more in private equity. including in high—growth businesses compared to the _ high—growth businesses compared to the uk — high—growth businesses compared to the uk. 0ne high—growth businesses compared to the uk. one of the key reasons— to the uk. one of the key reasons for this is the much larger— reasons for this is the much larger size of their funds. white _ larger size of their funds. while our pensions landscape remains — while our pensions landscape remains highly fragmented. that means— remains highly fragmented. that means that many of our pension funds— means that many of our pension funds do— means that many of our pension funds do not have the capacity to invest — funds do not have the capacity to invest at the scale required and more _ to invest at the scale required and more often than not, it is canadian _ and more often than not, it is canadian teachers and australian professor is reaping the rewards of investing in british— the rewards of investi

and while i was at dwp and working for the city, i was lucky enough to have a resource to help me take care of my son. he's the most important thing to me. and the city and county of san francisco has helped me take care of him. and my staff has been very supportive. i couldn't do it without them. so i want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart, okay. that's it for me. have a good day. thank you. [applause] >> so do my fellow commissioners have any further comments on the honorary commendations. >> commissioner simi? >> thank you both for your service to the county, we really appreciate it. >> thank you just also from me, i know i have asked some serious part questions and so graciously answering these questions and taking me on this tour how this pavements are work and how the streets collect, i learned a lot from both of you, thank you so much. >> yeah, i would like to make a comment about retirement. you finished the easy work, staying busy and staying healthy in your revierment is really important. walk the streets, keep yourself busy and pretty soon you will not have time f

dwp for the previous government. so a lot of this is very familiar. know, for example, there's something that we've been championing at csj for a long time, the universal support programme, which is meant to target people who are inactive. it places them into a job and supports them, stays with them for up to a year while they find their feet. >> but they have to want to do that. >> of course they do. and it's proven to work. actually, employment impacts from it were scored by the office for budget responsibility. it's so well evidence which is very tricky to do. and it's good the government's going to keep doing it but it's delayed it and it's renamed it. and they're now obviously saying that this is a new thing, that the new government is doing, but it's actually no new funding. and it's exactly the same number of people that will be supported. but what they're talking about as well is they're saying, well, you know, these young people that are out of work, you know, we will take their benefits off them if they don't do what they're being to told, w