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To ask the Scottish Executive what questions relating to drug use are asked of new prisoners when they arrive at prison and whether this information is retained.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
8 November 2007
They also ensure that employers, through collective bargaining at the local level or otherwise, can offer even better pay and terms and conditions to reward their workers and attract new recruits. These improvements will in turn help to tackle the recruitment and retention crisis in the social care sector.
Committee consideration
The DPM explains that this power will enable the Scottish Ministers to make changes to the list of “specified public bodies”, for example in circumstances when a new public body is created, or it is appropriate to remove a body from the list if it has been dissolved or replaced.
Certain leases in schedule 1 of the Bill (including student lets and holiday lets) fall within the scope of the Bill but are not covered by the new rules on automatic continuation and will end on their termination dates.
The Bill has now been amended to include a new clause which provides that the Secretary of State may only make regulations under clause 1 of the Bill in areas of devolved competence with the consent of the Scottish Ministers, unless the provision is merely incidental to, or consequential upon, provision outside Scottish devolved competence.
In that regard, the Committee observes that the Scottish Government’s Business and Regulatory Impact Assessment (laid alongside the Regulations) contains a detailed analysis of all the options which it considered, including weaker options such as requiring MRO leases only to be offered to new tenants, and not setting any guest beer requirement.
Committee reports
Date published:
16 November 2022
In its response to the Committee, the UK Government explained that the new regime will require environmental outcomes reports that consider the impact of proposed plans and projects on the delivery of specified outcomes.
Committee reports
Date published:
15 November 2022
The overview of the Bill, on page 4 of the Explanatory Notes, notes (in summary) that the Bill will:
Establish a new independent body, the Independent Commission for Reconciliation and Information Recovery (the “Commission”) which will, when requested to do so, conduct investigations into deaths and very serious injuries which resulted from conduct forming ...