§ Mr. GorrieTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list(a) actual and (b) real increases in pay in (a) 1995–96, (b) 1996–97, (c) 1997–98 and (d) 1998–99 of public sector employees in Scotland. [56954]
§ Mr. DewarThe information is as follows:
natural and adopted children of the deceased should have a fixed share of the estate. I am, however, seeking views on an alternative suggestion that children should only be able to claim from the estate the amount that the deceased would have owed them as aliment had he or she lived. Under such a system step-children who had been accepted as children of the family could be owed aliment and would have a claim on the estate.