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Does the committee also agree to note the update that the Scottish ministers have provided—which we have spoken about previously—in relation to the consolidation of the Police Pensions Regulations 1987 (SI 1987/257), and does it agree to welcome the news that the Home Office is working on a draft consolidating instrument and the Scottish ministers’ commitme...
Despite some rationalisation of backroom functions, many support jobs will be available in the new Scottish police force and I am pleased to hear that progress is being made in that respect.
On the other hand, we want to ensure that it can be implemented on the ground and that it is not so full of loopholes that businesses just create new businesses to get round the cap.We support the suggestion that the cap should also take into account employment levels; that makes sense.
First, the Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee seeks input on a series of options on how, under the new system, determinations are made on whether a matter should go to the Subordinate Legislation Committee.
And the decision.I will see you all again, so even though it is written on my brief, I will not wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year. I will do that next Tuesday when we have an informal meeting in private, for the best of reasons: lunch.Meeting closed at 12:11.
The bid will emphasise the superb infrastructure that is in place and our nation’s unrivalled passion for sport. I welcome the minister to his new post. Does he agree that we need to create a positive working relationship between stakeholders and that all elected members should be involved in helping to bring the 2018 youth Olympic games to Glasgow, to buil...
I thank the Deputy First Minister for her best wishes.It is good news that the Scottish Government will increase nursery education for three and four-year-olds, but Save the Children tells us that, before the age of three, the children from disadvantaged backgrounds have already fallen behind.
As part of that work, we commissioned research into prescribing, which has shown that, since 2009, there has been a decline in the initiation of new antipsychotics and, overall, a decreasing trend in antipsychotic use.
To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government’s position is on the study published by the New Economics Foundation relating to a halt to mackerel fishing.