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The James Hutton Institute said a reference should be made to “wellbeing” in the sustainable development aim. They also wanted express reference to parks being a positive influence for biodiversity regeneration on neighbouring areas.
Committee reports
Date published:
12 September 2023
The Conveners Group agreed that there was value in building the evidence base and highlighted the potentially off-putting language around deliberative democracy. MSPs expressed interest in how deliberative democracy works and supported the recommendation for building cross-party understanding of how it could be used in the Scottish Parliament.
Terminologically, the Scottish regulations use the term “‘UK site network” essentially to replace references to Natura 2000, but the UK regulations use the term “national site network”.
We also worked hard at accessibility through, for example, not having a dedicated credit card provider for the games. Typically, in games around the world, the financial services sponsors always involve major credit card providers.
Under these rules all residents and visitors (bar a small list of exemptions) will need to provide journey and contact details when travelling to Scotland and have to self-isolate at their accommodation for the first 14 days.
This instrument also amends the Council Tax Reduction (Scotland) Regulations 2012 and the Council Tax Reduction (State Pension Credit) (Scotland) Regulations 2012 by extending the classes of persons who do not need to meet residence criteria in the UK to qualify for a council tax reduction.
A lot of lone parents are also young parents, and young parents are hit by the under-25 penalty in universal credit—they get less money just for being under 25, yet their energy bills are exactly the same”.