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Improving climate change scrutiny across the Parliament
The Committee reflected on what is needed to ensure effective climate change scrutiny across the Scottish Parliament and set out a number of recommendations, particularly in relation to building capacity and ensuring ‘buy-in’ across committees, which it discussed with the Clerk/Chief Executive.
The Electoral Commission recommend that the declaration of assets at registration should “include an estimate of the costs the campaigner has incurred when buying or developing the data they hold when they register.”
Committee reports
Date published:
10 December 2017
Chris Oswald, EHRC, told us in the past money had been set aside for Gypsy Traveller site development, however, because of the “concordat with local authorities and the loosening of ring fencing, such aims are not achievable without the full consent and buy-in of local authorities.”iEqualities and Human Rights Committee, Official Report, 16 November 2017, C...
Annex
CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT
LETTER FROM THE DELEGATED POWERS AND LAW REFORM COMMITTEE TO THE SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT (20 SEPTEMBER 2017)
The Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee considered the above Bill on Tuesday 19th September and seeks an explanation of the following matters:
Section 7(3) – Duty to have regard to island communities
Power conferred on: the Scottish Ministers
Power exercisable by: Regulations
Parliamentary procedure: Affirmative
Section 7(3) provides that the Scottish Ministers may by regulations amend the schedule which lists the bodies, office-holders and other persons which are to be subject to the duty imposed by section 7(1).
Section 1—Amendment of the 1871 Act Amendment 1 is grouped with amendments 7 to 11. Amendments 1 and 7 to 11 address the committee’s recommendation at preliminary stage that the procedure set out in the bill for winding up the Society of Solicitors in the Supreme Courts of Scotland be strengthened.
As the Blueprint makes clear, if the Parliament agrees to the approach set out, we expect that there will continue to be robust evaluation and continuous improvements during Session 7. We would also expect that a review of the Blueprint is conducted before the end of Session 7 to inform the approach in Session 8.