Skip to main content
Loading…

Chamber and committees

Official Report: search what was said in Parliament

The Official Report is a written record of public meetings of the Parliament and committees.  

Filter your results Hide all filters

Dates of parliamentary sessions
  1. Session 1: 12 May 1999 to 31 March 2003
  2. Session 2: 7 May 2003 to 2 April 2007
  3. Session 3: 9 May 2007 to 22 March 2011
  4. Session 4: 11 May 2011 to 23 March 2016
  5. Session 5: 12 May 2016 to 5 May 2021
  6. Current session: 12 May 2021 to 18 July 2025
Select which types of business to include


Select level of detail in results

Displaying 1524 contributions

|

Economy and Fair Work Committee

Pre-budget Scrutiny 2023-24

Meeting date: 5 October 2022

Fiona Hyslop

There is an important message there. There is value in having something that provides a sustainable sector for individuals in the workforce—which has a knock-on effect on retention, which has a cost value itself—and that provides investment in growth instead of addressing just the short-term, immediate issues around energy costs. If there were Barnett consequentials—it is not obvious that there will be—in the business sector area, would business rates be your priority?

Economy and Fair Work Committee

Pre-budget Scrutiny 2023-24

Meeting date: 5 October 2022

Fiona Hyslop

We are getting down to brass tacks, looking forward to the budget for 2023-24.

Thank you for your written evidence. You have set out clearly what your asks and expectations are. We understand from the Chancellor f the Exchequer that there are likely to be departmental cuts at UK level. We do not know what that will mean for Barnett consequentials—that will depend on which departments are involved—but, this year, we are very likely to face a budget that is tighter than previous budgets.

What would you prioritise to be kept? The question is not about additional spend; it is about prioritising keeping in the budget what is important to your sector that is already there.

Economy and Fair Work Committee

Pre-budget Scrutiny 2023-24

Meeting date: 5 October 2022

Fiona Hyslop

I will come to Bryan Simpson: What would you expect to see in the budget? If you want anything new, you might have to say what you would prefer not to have. Do you think it is more important to keep some of the good, progressive policies that are already there to help in the skills sector or to make progress in different areas that we have heard about in previous evidence sessions? Or is there something new that needs to be done? What is missing from the response so far, not just from the Scottish Government but from the UK Government as well?

Economy and Fair Work Committee

Trade (Australia and New Zealand) Bill

Meeting date: 5 October 2022

Fiona Hyslop

I have to say that I am being generous; I do not expect the UK Government to undermine the Scottish supply chain, but without our consent or our being able to monitor and have scrutiny of this, things could happen by accident rather than by design. We in Parliament have a duty to scrutinise these things, and the problem is, if the UK Government can do this sort of thing in future legislation without even having to check with us, the door could be left open to unintended consequences. Is that a fairer representation of the situation?

Economy and Fair Work Committee

Procurement Bill

Meeting date: 5 October 2022

Fiona Hyslop

I will ask another question that is more for clarification about how procurement is working. You talked about the Sustainable Procurement Bill and how in Scotland there is a desire—and this committee has also looked at this in its supply chain inquiry—to use procurement in a positive way in areas such as net zero, the living wage and gender. If the Department for Work and Pensions in Bathgate, in my constituency, was conducting its own procurement locally—obviously, a lot of DWP procurement will be centralised and be part of UK-wide common frameworks—would we be expecting it to be subject to the conditionalities that we have or would it be part of what should be happening as part of the UK-wide common frameworks, because the procuring agency is reserved? We do not want the freedom that has been given to the reserved agencies in their procurement to compromise what is done in devolved areas. Some practical clarification would be good.

Economy and Fair Work Committee

Pre-budget Scrutiny 2023-24

Meeting date: 5 October 2022

Fiona Hyslop

Thank you for your very direct but also thoughtful responses.

Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee

Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill

Meeting date: 4 October 2022

Fiona Hyslop

David, what are your views on the interaction between the bill, the LCM on which we are looking at, and the draft NPF4?

Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee

Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill

Meeting date: 4 October 2022

Fiona Hyslop

I am trying to understand the matter from a practical point of view. What will it mean for projects, in particular? I turn to Robbie Calvert for an answer next. Although there are some concerns about the provisions on environmental outcomes reports, you can see a sense in them from a policy point of view. However, who would make the decision on large onshore—or even, potentially, offshore—developments that environmental assessment has shown need some kind of mitigation when that mitigation might not be able to happen on a granular, small scale but will happen elsewhere? Under the bill, would a Scottish minister or the secretary of state decide where the mitigation for the environmental outcome would take place? That is a practical situation that could happen.

Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee

Subordinate Legislation

Meeting date: 4 October 2022

Fiona Hyslop

But you would be reliant on the applicant as opposed to the approvals database.

On the volume of work, what discussions has the Scottish Government had with the UK Government about how it ensures that the HSE is sufficiently resourced to carry out its functions in this area effectively and to reduce delays in processing authorisations under the GB biocidal product regulatory regime?

Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee

Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill

Meeting date: 4 October 2022

Fiona Hyslop

Good morning. I am interested in policy coherence. Environmental and planning legislation is devolved. I will come to Robbie Calvert first. How might part 5 of the bill impact on the fourth national planning framework?