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Section 5(2A): Community wealth building action plan Power conferred on: The Scottish Ministers Power exercisable by: Regulations made by Scottish statutory instrument Parliamentary procedure: Affirmative Revised or new power: New 3 This document relates to the Community Wealth Building (Scotland) Bill (SP Bill 62A) ...
We note that according to the Financial Memorandum, the Member expects an increase in the number of crimes reported and investigated under the new offence. He also expects that 6% of those new reports result in prosecution (between 8 and 8 15 new cases per annum) .
Similarly, section 185 of the 1995 Act allows a new prosecution to be brought when the Sheriff Appeal Court disposes of a ―stated case‖ by setting aside the verdict of the inferior court and grants authority for a new prosecution. 13.
My third and final point is that we will shortly publish the latest estimate of the R number. We expect that it will show that the R number is still around 1 in Scotland, which is a concern, given that it is thought that the new variant of Covid could raise the R number by 0.4.
However, the DIT figures are the latest ones and they show the reality that investment in Scotland is down 9 per cent on last year, new jobs are down 23 per cent and Scotland’s share of new UK projects is down from 6 per cent to 4.9 per cent.
Of late, the SNP has made much noise about a range of new taxes, including a wealth tax. The witnesses at the finance committee all agreed that introducing a new tax is a long and complex process.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6O-04204 by Neil Gray on 16 January 2025, how much funding is proposed for alcohol and drug services in 2025-26, including NHS board baseline funding.