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Annexe A - Record of divisions disagreed
At paragraph 117, Stephen Kerr MSP proposed alternative wording as follows: “The Committee recognises that accessing opportunities to work, study or volunteer internationally now involves new requirements for young people travelling between the UK and the EU.
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No new framework agreements were published during the reporting period.
Modernisation of the law on copy documents
Section 5 of the Bill sets out new provisions which would, in certain circumstances, remove the requirement for a signed certificate authenticating a copy document.
The Cabinet Secretary responded that there would be scrutiny of the use of these powers through the affirmative procedure and that the Scottish Government requires to be flexible to monitor what are new areas of policy, to look at how they are working and how they are being embedded.
Committee reports
Date published:
10 December 2024
The memorandum raised concerns around the cost of establishing a new commissioner, and ongoing costs, given what the Scottish Government called the “extremely challenging financial climate”.
It therefore seems appropriate that the bill be amended to place similar specific requirements on the new bodies to be created by the bill around addressing the specific needs of those who use or wish to learn BSL.1National Deaf Children’s Society (NDCS). (2024, September).
At Stage 2, most of the successful amendments to the Bill were technical or sought to improve the drafting rather than being a change in policy. Areas of new policy were:
A regulation-making power to set out when late applications would be accepted.
Committee reports
Date published:
9 September 2024
This followed stakeholder calls for a new plan to be published setting out the future direction of SDS improvement, after the previous plan had expired in 2021.