Rural Economy and Connectivity Committee

Meeting date: Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Official Report 530KB pdf

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Subordinate Legislation

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Common Agricultural Policy (Direct Payments etc) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2017 (SSI 2017/98)

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Disabled Persons (Badges for Motor Vehicles) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2017 (SSI 2017/118)

I remind everyone that item 4, which would have been evidence on smallholdings legislation from the cabinet secretary, Mr Ewing, has been deferred to a later date because of the length of questioning that took place on previous items.

Item 5 is consideration of two negative instruments, as detailed on the agenda. The committee will now consider any issues that it wishes to raise in reporting to the Parliament on the instruments. Members should note that no motion to annul has been received and that there have been no representations to the committee on the instruments. Do members wish to make any comments?

I have a very brief comment on the blue badge regulations. It is very welcome that—if I understand the regulations correctly—the scheme is being extended to cover the temporary issue of blue badges, for example to people with mental health issues. I find myself to be quite instinctively in favour of that.

Do members wish to make any other comments?

As members have made no other comments, can I take it that members do not wish to make any specific recommendation in relation to the instruments?

Members indicated agreement.

11:56 Meeting continued in private until 12:43.