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Executive Summary
This is the sixteenth in a series of SPICe briefings covering the negotiations on the future relationship between the EU and the UK.
This briefing:
Outlines the new set of principles agreed on 21 October for handling an "intensified" phase of negotiations.
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Committee reports
Date published:
13 November 2020
CBI Scotland spoke of the need for continual improvement of the process.ivEEFW Committee meeting, 18 May 2020, col 10
Highland Food & Drink Club CIC also believes that enterprise agencies have become too bureaucratic and not clear if achieving their delivery goals. They ‘need to adopt a new culture - go back to what they used to be - one with aspiration...
Committee reports
Date published:
13 November 2020
This fed into stronger wage growth over the year;
Annual productivity slowed to 0.5% growth in 2019, after increasing by 3.2% in 2018;
Despite the uncertainty caused by Brexit in 2019, Scotland retained its position as second to London in attracting new Foreign Direct Investment projects in 2019.
Committee reports
Date published:
10 November 2020
Much is mentioned throughout this report such as use of technology and care at home services as well as new ways to deliver services. Additionally, we heard decision making was streamlined with the emergence of strategic groups, quicker decision making with senior officials and leaders being empowered to make decisions subject to significantly less interna...
For example, the 2013 Act addressed some of the issues created by social media, including establishing a new “take down” procedure for England and Wales.
Committee reports
Date published:
28 September 2020
Scotland’s most senior judge, Lord Carloway, called for new legislation to help address the growing backlog of court cases, stating that measures proposed so far had simply been "tinkering at the edges" of a major problem.
Committee reports
Date published:
22 September 2020
These changes are designed to ensure certainty, stability and predictability for the people who live and work in Scotland and those who do business here and with Scotland in Europe by updating or aligning devolved law with new EU law where that is appropriate and practicable.iPolicy Memorandum, paragraph 5.
The Bill's policy memorandum notes that the Scottish Government accepted Lord Bracadale's arguments on these points, stating that (paras 138 and 141):
The Scottish Government agrees with Lord Bracadale that adopting a threshold of threatening or abusive behaviour for stirring up hatred offences covering new characteristics strikes the right balance between ...
Age
In outlining the case for a new statutory aggravation based on age hostility, Lord Bracadale's report considers both old-age and youth.1Lord Bracadale, . (2018, May 31).