This search includes all content on the Scottish Parliament website, except for Votes and Motions. All Official Reports (what has been said in Parliament) and Questions and Answers are available from 1999. You can refine your search by adding and removing filters.
Official Report, 14 November 2023, cols 20 and 21 and written submissions including South of Scotland Enterprise, Highlands & Islands Enterprise and Zero Waste Scotland. However, some stakeholders expressed concerns about additional requirements placed on businesses and local authorities from binding targets and called for consultation to mitigate again...
Close the Gap, PFA Scotland), representatives of occupational health practice and research, the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice (Shirley-Anne Somerville) and the Member in Charge of the Bill (Mark Griffin).
The Committee expresses its thanks to those who provided written and oral evidence on the Bill.
Committee reports
Date published:
21 December 2023
Cap on maximum number of nights
Festivals Edinburgh expressed concern about potential negative impacts on cultural workers who “enhance the appeal of Scottish destinations with increasingly constrained budgets”.
In this context, the Committee wrote to the Minister for Housing asking him for an update on implementation of the licensing scheme and the implications of the challenge to City of Edinburgh Council's Licensing Scheme.
In his response, the Minister expressed his intention to continue to pursue the licensing scheme although he would continue to listen to the...
States Parties shall assure to the child who is capable of forming his or her own views the right to express those views freely in all matters affecting the child, the views of the child being given due weight in accordance with the age and maturity of the child.
12(2).
The Committee received no submissions to the call for views but agreed to write to the Health, Social Care and Sport Committee to highlight concerns expressed during the Committee's evidence session with the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body during its Budget Scrutiny 2023-24 and to inform that Committee's scrutiny of the Bill at Stage 1.
Committee reports
Date published:
21 December 2022
Committee views on the revised draft
Before turning to look at specific issues, it is useful to reflect on the overall positivity expressed to the Committee about the revised draft of NPF4.
The Public Sector Pay Policy announcement scheduled for the new year is therefore worth watching, as the exact amount of re-allocated funding should then be known; as well as how the Scottish Government plans to meet the aims expressed in the Resource Spending Review.
Electronic signature requirements
There were some concerns expressed that the Bill would require a more complex form of electronic signature than is necessary.