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Question 2 – Regulation 3 covers the right to visits in general. Does this regulation adequately describe what ‘facilitation’ of visiting does or does not entail?
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
7 December 2012
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will report on the outcome of the recent British-Irish Council Summit. On 26 November 2012, the nineteenth meeting of the British-Irish Council was held in Cardiff, Wales.
Question 3 – Do you think that the regulations around suspension of visiting (Regulations 4 and 5) provide adequate assurance to residents and their loved ones that they will have the right to continue to care for and visit residents in the event of a suspension of visiting?
Section 15(8)(b): Power to specify an approved substance Power conferred on: Scottish Ministers Power exercisable by: Regulations made by Scottish statutory instrument Parliamentary procedure: Affirmative Revised or new power: Revised Provision 26. Section 15 is as detailed above.
Section 12(5)(e): signing by proxy: new definition of “proxy” Power conferred on: Scottish Ministers Power exercisable by: Regulations made by Scottish statutory instrument Parliamentary procedure: Negative Revised or new power: New Provision 14.
Jackson Carlaw (Con) Eastwood (C) Finlay Carson (Con) Galloway and West Dumfries (C) Maggie Chapman (Green) North East Scotland (R) Foysol Choudhury (Ind) Lothian (R) Foysol Choudhury was suspended from the Scottish Labour Party on 26 September 2025. He is now an Independent MSP.
The information that is currently available—as I said, it may all change—is that capital will be lowered in nominal terms in 2026-27 compared to 2025-26, which could amount to a 2.5 per cent real-terms cut.