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Action: Phil, GHds Item 6: Diversity & Inclusion 7. An audit had been undertaken to assess progress on the organisation’s inclusion maturity to help identify any steps needed to achieve the strategic aims.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
9 August 2021
The Advisory Sub-Group on Education and Children's Issues considered this data alongside the latest evidence on long-COVID when producing its latest advice on the return to school in August.
Attitudes towards prostitution
To what extent is the effectiveness of approaches which seek to challenge the demand for prostitution by criminalising the buyer (rather than the seller) dependent upon changing attitudes within society towards both: (a) the buying of sex; and (b) people in prostitution?
Committee reports
Date published:
15 November 2024
Another such area is in the development of National Indicators, where wider consultation will better ensure these are robust measures of progress of all agreed National Outcomes, that have the buy-in of stakeholders, and can be used to inform effective policy making going forward.
Participants suggested there was potential for additional costs to local authorities from the creation of a new tax, owing to requirements to collect, administer, monitor and enforce it.
Committee reports
Date published:
17 November 2020
Many witnesses stressed the need for community involvement in individual projects, and public buy-in more generally. They noted increasing public interest in decarbonisation and climate change yet highlighted that a lot of people did not appreciate gas boilers were emitting technologies.
Revoke, suspend or modify legislation on public intervention and private storage aid, which currently allows Governments to intervene in the market under exceptional circumstances to buy up and/or store products to support agricultural producers.
(As agreed by Parliament on 1 February 2023)
Convener: Finlay Carson (Con)
Deputy Convener: Beatrice Wishart (LD)
Membership: The committee has 9 members
Committee meetingsThere were 11 meetings in the parliamentary yearNumberTotal meetings of the Committee11Meetings held wholly in private0Meetings held partly in private11Joint meetings with other Committees0Meetings held outside the Parliament0Meetings held remotely by video conference0Hybrid meetings8Committee membersMembersPartyNumber of meetings attended (possible total)Karen AdamSNP9(11)Alasdair AllanSNP11 (11)Ariane BurgessGreen10 (11)Finlay CarsonCon9(11)Jim FairlieSNP11 (11)Christine Grahame (from 18 April 2023)SNP3 (4)Rhoda Grant (from 25 April 2023)Lab2 (3)Rachael HamiltonCon11 (11)Jenni Minto (until 31 March 2023)SNP7(7...