The SNP government has already committed in its manifesto to increasing carer's allowance to the level of jobseeker's allowance, replacing the "sure start" maternity grant with an expanded maternity and early years allowance called the "best start" grant and introducing a new grant for young people at risk of long-term unemployment.
Sturgeon pledged to extend free school meals to children in nursery care, deliver superfast digital broadband to 100% of premises across Scotland and restore the Sure Start maternity grant cut by the Tories in 2010, replacing it with an expanded maternity and early years allowance.
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It said Osborne had hugely expanded field allowances, introduced by Alistair Darling in 2009 to encourage production from "small or technically challenging new fields".
Chancellor George Osborne also said he was expanding the allowances for clusters of fields with high pressure and high temperature reserves of hydrocarbons, which require new and more expensive technology.
Tower Hamlets replaced the full education maintenance allowance after the government abolished it, expanded a living wage requirement for all contractors, and allocates a £1,500 grant to every university student.
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David Powell, FoE's economics campaigner, said in the current financial year new field allowances had been created and an existing one expanded.
For example, child education allowance and commuted overtime allowance were eliminated; the process for obtaining car loans was streamlined to eliminate redundancies; and there had been discussions about expanding on-call allowance to additional cadres.
