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Will you acknowledge that, in its submission, the SPF anticipated that change and pointed out that it would increase the risk of infection being transferred not only to police officers but to their families?
The rights to the income stream will transfer with the shares, but the special purpose vehicle will remain in place and be responsible either for directly providing the services that are involved or for managing the contracts that provide those services.
I was the person who put forward, at the 1995 Scottish National Party conference, the policy of bringing in the single transferable vote for elections. That was quite a hard-fought battle.
Given that that local innovation will have value in local communities, how is it being reflected in and transferred to other domains in the police service where it might be of value?
That includes ensuring that repatriated powers are transferred to the Scottish Parliament along with a sustainable funding package and any proposed replacements for the ESF and ERDF programmes.
Section 15(2) of the Local Government etc (Scotland) Act 1994 refers to “the transfer of all rights, liabilities and obligations of an existing local authority on 1st April 1996 to such new authority or authorities”.
That is what would need to be done—some modification would be needed in order to preserve the position in domestic law of EU law and to postpone the point of transfer from the EU law regime to the retained EU law regime.
I chaired one in Edinburgh in October 2019, and I think that the Welsh First Minister chaired one in Cardiff at the end of January 2020. Therefore, 26 of the 28 meetings were chaired by UK Government ministers.
This is the committee’s first formal evidence session for our pre-budget scrutiny in the lead up to the 2021-22 Scottish Government budget. On 26 June, we agreed to make the financial sustainability of local government the main focus of that scrutiny.