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Deer management costs were, by a significant margin, the most contentious aspect discussed by the respondents. The Bill sets new powers for NatureScot. These include:
The power to set up a control scheme which will compel landowners to undertake deer management.
Key aspects of the Bill:
The Member's policy objectives in introducing the Bill are: 1) to ensure that environmental offences which meet the definition of ecocide are treated as criminal offences 2) to deter companies and individuals from acting in ways that may cause ecocide and 3) to maintain alignment with developments at EU level.
The Bill creates a new...
Amendments included those that sought to:
strengthen the proposed new requirement for social housing providers to take account of a domestic abuse policy
enable a review of women's refuge provision
enable the public debt of domestic abuse survivors (for example, rent arrears) to be written off
expand the definition of domestic violence to cover coercive con...
In addition, the instrument will increase the maximum period that eligible individuals can spend released on HDC, from the current maximum of 180 days to a new maximum of 210 days.
The changes will further support preparation for release and managed re-integration following a custodial sentence, whilst also assisting with the longer-term management of the p...
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”.