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There is no prescribed procedure to be followed by Scottish Ministers when they designate
On that basis legislative consent of the Scottish Parliament is being sought, and a legislative consent memorandum was lodged by Humza Yousaf MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Justice, on 26 February 2020.
Legislative consent memorandum
The LCM states that it is the view of...
Committee reports
Date published:
10 December 2019
Indeed, this issue is not new and was recognised in the implementation guidance for local authorities that accompanied the then Scottish Executive’s National Cultural Strategy in 2000.
Section 23 empowers the Scottish Ministers to make regulations "with a view to preventing or minimising advantages ... arising from non-domestic rates avoidance arrangements that are artificial". Sections 24 to 26 are definitional sections. "Advantage" is defined as including avoidance, remission, relief, repayment or deferral of a payment.
Retrieved from <a href="https://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Finance/Publications/2018-11-20/2018-11-20-Costs-Report.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Finance/Publications/2018-11-20/2018-11-20-Costs-Report.pdf</a> [accessed 11 June 2019]
Scottish local government finance statistics2Scottish Government. (2019, February 26). Scottish local government financial statistics, 2017-2018.
S7W-00054 Emma Roddick: To ask the Scottish Government how it will support and promote Gaelic, and whether this will include protecting staffing and resources across its departments and designating a minister responsible for the language.
He said: “If the NHS remains reliant on non-recurring savings, and if we layer in the Government’s changed approach to brokerage in 2025-26, there is a risk of increasing the financial pressure on individual boards and reducing their ability to break even”.