Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee
Meeting date: Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Official Report 514KB pdf
Contents
- Attendance
- Decision on Taking Business in Private
- Agriculture (Retained EU Law and Data) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
- Instrument subject to Affirmative Procedure
- Instruments subject to Negative Procedure
Instrument subject to Affirmative Procedure
Fuel Poverty (Enhanced Heating) (Scotland) Regulations 2020 [Draft]
Item 3 is consideration of an affirmative instrument. The regulations set out three enhanced heating regimes and specify the types of household to which an enhanced heating regime will be applied for the purposes of measuring fuel poverty.
In regulation 2, the defined term “benefits” ought to have been
“benefits received for a care need or disability”,
to mirror the definition in the Fuel Poverty (Targets, Definition and Strategy) (Scotland) Act 2019. Does the committee therefore wish to draw the draft regulations to the Parliament’s attention under the general reporting ground?
Members indicated agreement.
Does the committee wish to welcome the Scottish Government’s commitment to amend the draft regulations by correction slip?
Members indicated agreement.