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SPICe briefings Date published: 31 October 2019

Scottish social security benefits - Cost of Scottish Choices

r=12072&mode=pdf</a> [accessed 31 May 2019] Ongoing operational costs have been estimated at £1.6m for 2018/19.2Written PQ S5W-18721. (2018, September 26). Retrieved from <a href="https://www.parliament.scot/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx?

Committee reports Date published: 19 March 2019

Legislative Consent Memorandum: Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill - Scope of the power

The UK Government acknowledges in the UK DPM that the power is broad, and states that it is necessarily broad so as to enable an appropriate authority to make suitable legislative provision for a range of post-exit scenarios that may arise.iUK DPM, paragraph 26. The UK Government justifies the breadth of the power on the basis that it can only be used to mo...

Committee reports Date published: 26 November 2018

Getting Rights Right: Human Rights and the Scottish Parliament - Joint equalities and human rights impact assesment

The tool covers equality impact assessments, but also human rights impact assessments and health inequalities”.iiOfficial Report, 26 April 2018, Col 20. Scottish CARE considered EQHRIAs had the potential to revitalise and renew the impact assessment process and considered they should be mandatory.

Committee reports Date published: 5 June 2018

Sexual harassment and inappropriate conduct - Clarity of and confidence in policies

There was no single reference point to guide an individual on how to make a complaint…instead, the avenues to redress were found across several documents.”iEngender, written submission, page 4. 23% of those responding to the staff survey said that they were not confident about how to report incidences of sexual harassment and sexist behaviour while 41% of those who had experienced or witnessed the conduct and decided not to report did so because “the incident would not have been taken seriously”.The Scottish Parliament, Sexual Harassment and Sexist Behaviour Survey, Final Report, 26...

Committee reports Date published: 23 May 2018

Annual report 2017-18 - Draft Budget 2018-19

The Committee's report on the draft budget was published on 26 January 20181No title (n.d.) Retrieved from <a href="http://www.parliament.scot/S5_Finance/Reports/Report_on_Draft_Budget_2018-19.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.parliament.scot/S5_Finance/Reports/Report_on_Draft_Budget_2018-19.pdf</a> and debated in the chamber on 31 January 20182No...

SPICe briefings Date published: 6 March 2018

UK Withdrawal from the European Union (Legal Continuity) (Scotland) Bill - Parliamentary Consideration of the UK Withdrawal from the European Union (Legal Continuity) (Scotland) Bill.

Given the fact that the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill has reached the House of Lords without amendment to Clause 11 or Schedule 3, and is expected to complete its Committee stage in the House of Lords on 26 March, the Scottish Government's European Union (Legal Continuity) (Scotland) Bill has limited time in which to be considered in the Scottish Parliam...

Last updated: 23 May 2024

CERGLocalGovernmentNetZero

Arianne Burgess, MSP Convenor of the Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee The Scottish Parliament Edinburgh EH99 1SP [email protected] 25 April 2024 Dear Ms Burgess, th Thank you for your letter of 26 March and for your interest in CERG’s work.

Last updated: 3 November 2022

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