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Following on from a call for views which had received over 5,700 responses in the previous reporting period, the Committee took evidence at Stage 1 over six meetings from May to November 2023. The Committee also visited Roxburghe Estate in the Scottish Borders to visit moorland managed for grouse moor shooting.
Convener Edward Mountain and Liam Kerr visit the Isle of Arran, 7 November 2022Deputy Convener Fiona Hyslop and Monica Lennon visit the Western Isles, 28-29 November 2022
While the subject of bridges might not dominate the evening news, it is absolutely vital to the daily lives of people in rural—and for that matter, urban—Scotland.
As Christine Grahame highlighted, Midlothian was one of those proud mining communities. At one time, it contained 26 collieries employing 11,000 miners, and today, of course, it houses the National Mining Museum.
Its submission states: “In sections 25 and 26 with respect to the postponement of local government elections the local RO or the Convener of the EMB as appropriate has power to postpone the poll for up to 2 weeks.
A response which focuses on commitments to update an action plan, amend certain policies, or task a further policy team to develop new policies would not be acceptable.
Since I had the honour of opening the new visitor centre earlier this year, there have been 20,000 visits to it; a further 50,000 people have visited the reserve itself.
Members might recall that the 2019 regulations continued the same obligations and rights to bidders from other countries, but that was for 18 months after the end of the transition period. Our new draft regulations reduce that period to 12 months to match the latest approach that the UK Government has taken, as it an...