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After EU exit, the UK could be under pressure to accept to lower environmental standards than those of the EU, in order to agree new free trade agreements. So, while trade agreements may not prevent Scotland from adopting legislation keeping pace with EU environmental standards, they may engender a situation whereby Scottish business would be placed at a competitive disadvantage if required to comply with more ambitious standards –for example on agriculture products– vis-à-vis the rest of the UK and the UK’s new trade partners.
Financial implications 20. In light of the operation of the new online advertising powers being a UK-wide scheme, implications for Police Scotland may be limited.
Coming from the land reform portfolio, I see that we already have a suite of right-to-buy mechanisms that apply to public and private land, including a mechanism to buy abandoned or neglected ground to do further sustainable development, and the crofting right to buy.
While a delay could not be ruled out, planning was progressing on the basis of the election taking place as scheduled in May. LG also discussed the latest polling information and the possible impacts on supporting new and returning MSPs. 8.
Should we—perish the thought—have a new wave of Covid, or a new variant of Covid, as we go into the winter, how practical and realistic would it be for you to staff up again to the numbers that we have seen previously?
Contrary to the claims that are often made in this chamber that Brexit has dried up the supply of migrant workers, the latest figures show that net legal migration to the United Kingdom has doubled since Brexit.