Nicola Sturgeon, centre, at the Caird Hall in Dundee, where she announced Scotland's new social security agency will be headquartered in the city. PA:Press AssociationMore than a thousand jobs will be created in Dundee and Glasgow as Scotland takes control of its own social security system. Nicola Sturgeon announced that the social security agency would have its headquarters in Dundee and have another base in Glasgow. The decision to hand control over parts of the social security system to Holyrood was taken after the 2014 independence referendum. The agency is expected to be up and running next year but it will not deliver all of the 11 benefits for which it has…

Source: The Times September 18, 2017 23:03 UTC