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The UK Government has stressed the long-term economic outlook when assessing the value of accession highlighting the potential for increasing the size of the CPTPP market with a number of countries (including Thailand, the Philippines, and South Korea) expressing an interest in joining alongside the long-term economic potential of the Indo-Pacific region.
Committee reports
Date published:
21 December 2022
The Committee notes that the policies on renewable energy developments have been considerably re-written with a view to providing a firm basis for consistent decision making on renewable energy developments.
Scottish Renewables expressed strong support for the clarity provided by the re-written policies, but did highlight some concerns.
L.R. 121; 2015 G.W.D. 29-484; [2015] C.L.Y. 3087. (2015, September 3). The Inner House expressed the view that the practical effect of the restriction in the victim test was limited in cases in which a public interest body was willing to a) support an individual’s legal challenge; or b) apply to intervene in any case raised by a potential victim.
Rainbow flag to progress flag
Many interviewees commented on the use of the rainbow flag to acknowledge NHS efforts, often feeling uneasy about the wider public usage where LGBT+ content or signification risked being displaced. All respondents expressed an awkwardness around this, often in full support of the NHS, while fearing a displacement of an importa...
The new statutory aggravations would cover the full list of hate crime characteristics provided for in the Bill (i.e. race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, transgender identity, variations in sex characteristics and age).
The Justice Committee expressed support for the continued use of the statutory aggravation model in prosecuting hate crime, sta...
Michael Gove emphasised the UK Government's desire to agree a Free Trade Agreement with the EU but said:
at the moment, the most likely outcome is that we will leave on WTO terms...
...I think the view has been expressed by some that if there is no agreement by 31 December, we would go back to the negotiating table in a month, two months or three months’ ti...
This briefing is based on 1) collection and review of forestry related policies and forestry data and other related literature 2) stakeholder semi-structured interviews from January 2020 t0 March 2020, with 16 expert stakeholdersiiiinterviews were conducted prior to the Covid-19 lock down measures.ivTo note the range of views expressed are those of the stak...
This adds an extra element to the normal SSI scrutiny procedure by allowing committees to express a view on the categorisation of instruments as high or low significance and whether they should be subject to either the negative or the affirmative procedure.