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At the outset of the Committee’s evidence session on 26 March, the Bill Team informed the Committee that officials were working to revise the FM “with the intention of publishing a revised version after stage 2.”
The 3% cap on locally determined Council Tax increases was again agreed for 2018-19, and all 32 local authorities opted to increase Council Tax by the full 3%.
Figure 7 - Average Council Tax bill in 2018-19, cash terms, compared to 2016-17Figure 7 shows the cumulative impact of Council Tax reform over the first two y...
Convener: Stuart McMillan (SNP)
Deputy Convener: Bill Kidd (SNP)
Membership: The committee has 5 members
Committee meetingsThere were 35 meetings in the parliamentary yearNumberTotal meetings of the Committee35Meetings held wholly in private0Meetings held partly in private35Joint meetings with other Committees0Meetings held outside the Parliament0Meetings held remotely by video conference0Hybrid meetings8Committee membersMembersPartyNumber of meetings attended (possible total)Jeremy Balfour (to 21 March 2024)Con27 (30)Foysol Choudhury (from 31 January 2024)Lab10 (11)Tim Eagle (from 21 March 2024)Con4 (5)Bill KiddSNP34 (35)Stuart McMillanSNP34 (35)Oliver MundellCon31 (35)Colin Smyth (from 16 November 2023 to 31 January 2024)Lab8 (8)Mercedes Villalba (until 16 November 2023)Lab13 (16)Substitute membersSubstitute membersPartyNumber of meetings attendedMaurice Golden (until 29 June 2023)Con1Rhoda GrantLab1Rona MackaySNP2Alexander Stewart (from 29 June 2023)Con1Reporters: None
Committee Clerk: Greg Black
Advisers: None
Visits...
This will ensure that new entrants looking to join the sector through new-build construction are not prevented from doing so due to the uncertainty of a licence being granted or refused post construction.
That work is now seeing record numbers of students from disadvantaged backgrounds—around 5,600 in the latest official statistics—enter our universities.
The benchmarking of the standards in prisons will take place in 2025/26.Scottish GovernmentHomelessness in Scotland statisticsAdditional statistical tables relating to prison homelessness in Scotland.
We tell people who have something to submit how to submit it and the types of things that we are looking for.11Public Audit and Post-legislative Scrutiny Committee, Oral evidence. (2020, November 26). Retrieved from <a href="http://www.parliament.scot/parliamentarybusiness/report.aspx?
A full list of Ministerial participants is attached. Latest Political Developments The Council reflected on the latest political developments across their administrations, and took the opportunity to engage on a number of topics of mutual interest.