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I am pleased that Police Scotland are eventually giving evidence to set out what their latest position is in this matter. I remain concerned at the multiple inconsistencies in Police Scotland’s position on recording rape and other offence types.
For the May 2026 Scottish Parliament elections changes and accompanying guidance will need to be in place by October 2025 at the very latest.” The Committee requests a response to this letter, copying in the copy recipients, by Monday, 30 June 2025.
I have, however, referred to the UK Parliament’s latest annual report of the Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme (ICGS), which covers the year from 1 July 2021 to 30 June 2022.
A further reporting dispensation was investigated by officials with HM Treasury but this was not granted given the latest ONS decision. Therefore it was necessary to reconsider the governance model of the organisation, and officials have been working with Scottish Canals since September 2019 to help them understand the implications of transition to NDPB.
There are also plans afoot to organise an open day to promote greener living programmes. New employment opportunities have been created as a result of the climate challenge fund.
One aspect of that is the section of the bill that deals with the days outwith which it will be an offence to use fireworks. That includes the period from 26 December until 2 January, as well as from the three days immediately preceding the first day of Chinese new year until the seventh day after the first day of Chinese new year.
What should Creative Scotland do to promote creative industries abroad? When we talked about crafts, we heard about people going to exhibitions in New York with products in their baggage.
Two weeks ago, we were recording an average of 815 new cases a day across the country. Last week, that number had fallen to 657 new cases a day and, this week, it has fallen further to an average of 490 new cases a day.