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People want effective and quick justice and they want to see in their own communities what that means in practice—I welcome the comments that the minister made following her recent visit to New York.People also want consistent justice.
Some of you might have noticed in the press today that Asda is the latest company to join others in the food sector in taking up the cudgels for Gaelic.
This issue is reserved to the UK Government. EU Directive 2003/30/EC on the promotion of the use of biofuels or other renewable transport fuels requires member states to set targets for biofuel sales in 2005 and 2010.
As Liam McArthur said, there were issues 20 years ago in Oregon, when assisted dying was new or emerging, but there is now a very refined protocol that we know works at 100 per cent effectiveness.12Scottish Parliament. (2025, February 4).
In short, the Scottish Government could have added within legislative competence the protected characteristic of gender reassignment, which would have included trans men and trans women. But it created a new protected characteristic of trans women, which it did not have the power to do.
Committee reports
Date published:
21 September 2023
We agree that additional clarity would be beneficial. We propose the insertion of a new definition “surviving partner” at para 1(1) of the Schedule as follows: ““surviving partner” has the meaning given in regulation 76 of the 2015 Regulations.”
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That said the DFM acknowledged the wider concerns about decluttering the public sector landscape—
As time goes on, new policy initiatives are introduced and there are moments when we have to take stock and simplify some of those exercises.