Question reference: S5W-27061
- Asked by: Alexander Burnett, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: 21 January 2020
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Current status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 29 January 2020
Question
To ask the Scottish Government (a) how and (b) when the debt advice levy will be distributed.
Answer
In 2020-21 the debt advice levy funding will be used to support the Scottish Government's vision for a user-centred, collaborative and sustainable free debt advice system which was set out in A Debt Advice Routemap for Scotland published on 17 December 2019. The levy funding will be distributed during that year in accordance with the arrangements made by the Scottish Government with recipients of the funds.