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It effectively prohibits families and pregnant households being placed in B+B, or other unsuitable accommodation, unless there are exceptional circumstances.The Order stated that these households and pregnant households should not be in B+B accommodation, or any other unsuitable accommodation, for more than 14 days and that this accommodation should be wind...
Reserved consumer powers include:
the power to legislate for consumer rights;
the power to legislate for product safety (except in relation to food);
the power to legislate for enforcement, via regulation or by enhancing the powers available to enforcement officers, such as trading standards officers;
control over most regulated markets, including financial...
Committee reports
Date published:
26 November 2018
The Government, like any other client, is entitled to legal professional privilege when it seeks legal advice, subject only to overriding considerations of exceptional public interest. As we explain below, we consider there to be more effective ways of ensuring that the Parliament receives sufficiently detailed explanatory information from the Government ab...
Committee reports
Date published:
11 December 2017
As set out in schedule 4, the definition in this bill refers to physical or mental impairment that has a significant and not short-term adverse effect on an ability to undertake day-to-day activities, or gives rise to another significant need. It also provides an exception to these criteria for terminally ill applicants.
Committee reports
Date published:
14 September 2017
The Code provides that reports, although approved by a committee (and no longer in draft form), should be kept confidential until formal publication, except where the Committee has agreed to prior publication and has waived confidentiality.
Section 23 maintains the general principle from the Forestry Act 1967, that a felling licence or permission is required for felling growing trees except in certain circumstances.
Felling is not an offence if it is carried out under:
exemptions (section 24)
a felling permission (sections 25 - 30)
a felling direction (sections 31 and 32)
a restocking directi...
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the Scottish Retail Consortium’s suggestion, in its Delivering Real Growth manifesto, that any further divergence towards higher income tax rates in Scotland compared to the rest of the UK should be avoided.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
14 January 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what the average ticket price currently is for passengers on Caledonian Sleeper services, and how this compares with the average subsidy per passenger.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
9 January 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what the current subsidy per passenger is for ScotRail services, and how this compares with other rail operators in the UK.