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Retrieved from https://www.bucs.org.uk/resources-page/welcome-to-the-new-bucs-strategy.htmlThis strategy also outlines its values - inclusive, innovative, respectful and dynamic - and strategic themes that will help them to achieve this overarching ambition by 2027.
The Bill sets out reforms which aim to change the pattern of land ownership in rural and island communities and impose new requirements on larger estates across Scotland.
The jury also came to a consensus on preferred aspects for a new funding model. As is the case for later citizens' jury/panel activities, the Sortition Foundation was commissioned to recruit a random stratified sample broadly representative of the Scottish population (as at the 2011 Census), and an expert steering group was used to agree the final question ...
Committee reports
Date published:
28 February 2024
Tackling waste crime
Stakeholders said they were broadly supportive of new powers as a way of meaningfully addressing waste crime in Scotland.iNet Zero, Energy and Transport Committee.
At present, the Presiding Officer has a power to propose (after consulting the Electoral Commission) a new date for polling day. The date must be within one month of the original polling day.
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Her officials clarified that the SLCC is not necessarily seeking new powers as they already have the power to require solicitors to provide information but that when that information is not provided, currently their only recourse is to go to court.
These rates, along with intermediate and higher and top rates, will remain unchanged,
introduce a new 45p Advanced rate band for those earning over £75,000, and
increase the Top rate of tax from 47p to 48p, paid by those earning more than £125,140.
Furthermore, the Committee’s report raises concerns that the creation of a new, statutory body (which would work alongside other public bodies, like the Scottish Commission on Social Security), would add to an already cluttered public body landscape, making the social security system more complex to administrate.
It is an independent scientific advisory body that provides advice on whether, based on evidence and established links to an occupation, new diseases should be added to the list of prescribed diseases for which benefits are payable and the occupations for which they should be prescribed.
However, given the high-level nature of both the outcomes and the portfolios, it is questionable how useful this will be for scrutiny.
Last year SPICe created a new infographic to help committees start to interrogate this data more during their scrutiny, which we're replicated this year.