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The University of Stirling Occupational and Environmental Health Research Group reflecting on the current COVID-19 pandemic said:
The long-term NHS treatment costs for those contracting the new occupational COVID-19 due to employer health and safety failures could well be considerable in Scotland.
According to the Explanatory Notes, these provisions will only apply in relation to professions for which new qualification or experience requirements are introduced, or existing ones changed, in any part of the UK2UK Parliament. (2020, September 9).
The review made sixteen recommendations, which were accepted in full,Letter from Deputy First Minister to Convener of the Education and Skills Committee, 23 January 2019 including the production a new toolkit to enhance health and wellbeing/PSE delivery at all stages of education.
The UK government accordingly announced an investment of £705 million to finance the personnel upgrade that is necessary to perform all the activities described and many more (besides trade in goods, people will want to cross the UK border, and the customs authorities will need to apply the new immigration regime).
This commitment came in the wake of the c...
Background to electronic waste tracking clause
EU Circular Economy Package
The EU CEP introduced new requirements in waste directives for the electronic tracking of waste, driven by a recognition that management of hazardous waste was a problem in the EU and there was a need to increase traceability.
Delegated Powers
At its meeting on 10 March 2020 the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee agreed that it was content with the following power in the Consumer Scotland Bill which was the only new power added at Stage 2:
Section 6(3) – specified persons whose activities Consumer Scotland must have regard to
The Committee also reconsidered the power belo...
Similarly, in the women's estate, the current population of 414 prisoners (on 4 October 2019) is 160 over the proposed new capacity for the smaller, trauma-informed centres currently being constructed.
Mediation (Scotland) Bill: A proposal for a Bill to increase the use and consistency of mediation services for certain civil cases by establishing a new process of court-initiated mediation that includes an initial mandatory process involving a statutory duty mediator, p 15.