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Commencement regulations are not subject to any parliamentary procedure. Section 26 – Short title 111. This section provides the short title of the Act.
As ever, the SNP’s eyes are on a different prize. This is just the latest move by the SNP in its game of constitutional chess—its latest gambit aimed at agitating the Scottish population towards a different outcome.
Each of our parcels has a set list of ingredients; if an item is not donated, we buy it. Last year we were spending £1,000 a month buying food, but this year it is £2,000 a month.
Members queried whether “a more fundamental economic modelling to look at where the investment in housing stock comes from and to what extent buy-to-let results in direct investment” was needed.
Before the 2017 Order came in, however, the additional amount was chargeable if spouses, civil partners or co-habitants were jointly buying a home to replace a home that was owned by only one of them.
On the follow-up, to give Brian Whittle some more reassurance I say that Police Scotland’s latest published figures again show that all 181 referrals were followed up.
There is still time to secure the agreement of the Parliament and have the Rules in place for the beginning of the new session.
Yours sincerely
Bill Kidd MSP
Convener
Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee
LETTER FROM PUBLIC PETITIONS COMMITTEE TO STANDARDS, PROCEDURES AND PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS COMMITTEE 26 February 2021
Dear Bill,
Thank you for your letter of 12 February 2021 highlighting that the Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments (SPPA) Committee had discussed the responses to its consultation on the proposed changes to Standing Orders Rules proposed by the Public Petitions Committee.