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Children's Services Planning
Part 2 of the Bill amends existing provisions in Part 3 of the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 (the 2014 Act) on the planning of children's services. It introduces the new term 'lead children's services planning bodies'.
Committee reports
Date published:
22 February 2024
We support the creation of a national agency but believe that this should have a broader remit to cover all staff working in the new integrated NCS. This would ensure a more equal approach to workforce planning and continuous professional development (CPD) and support the cultural shift to a model based on rehabilitation, reablement and early intervention.1...
Published on 25 October 2023] Commitment to insert a new Part number and heading at the next available opportunity
Budget (Scotland) Act 2023 Amendment Regulations 2023 (SSI 2023/Draft) [62nd Report. 2023.
Committee reports
Date published:
17 November 2023
He added:
"...the Government has an approach on incineration that aims to move away from the development of new incinerators. However, the use of any source of waste heat from an existing facility—whether it is energy from a waste plant, a data centre or an industrial site—makes a valuable contribution by putting heat into a heat network."
It considered this was an “effective way of leveraging and generating new investment in culture” and was therefore concerned about its reduction in Scottish Government funding.2Scottish Parliament. (2023, September 28).
Committee reports
Date published:
15 February 2023
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The UK Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy stated in a letter to the DPLR Committee that the “intention is for these powers [under clause 15] to be used to revoke any retained EU law that is not fit for purpose and to replace it with laws that are more tailored to the UK and reflect our new regulatory free...
Committee reports
Date published:
7 September 2022
This first draft of the Bill introduced in 2018 was opposed by the Scottish Government on the grounds that it encroached on devolved competence (see SPICe Briefing on the UK Fisheries Bill). Before a new Bill was introduced into the House of Lords in January 2020, further engagement took place between the UK Government and the devolved administrations.
r=12514&c=2239841FMEL's former Chief Naval Architect Chris Dunn used a change in the specification of the number of passengers to be carried by the new vessel as a further example of the wider impact on build strategy of certain design changes which the former management of FMEL claimed were requested by CMAL:
The difference between 1,000 to 930 passeng...
The Committee welcomes the willingness of the Member to clarify that the power in section 6 does not include the power to create new criminal offences, and therefore recommends that he lodges an amendment to the Bill to achieve this.