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Every day, one in 10 of the population visits a community pharmacy; more than 60,000 people visit their family doctor; 8,500 people visit the dentist for a check-up; 2,700 people receive a free eye test; and district nurses make 12,600 visits.
They are unnecessary and vest an awful lot of power in Scottish ministers, enabling them to determine even exceptions from the bill—in respect of the right to allow poindings and warrant sales to be carried out for up to 12 months—or to make further provision for exceptions to the general principle of the bill.
In considering this, we endorse the approach of holding Panels in the Parliament building because of the powerful impact this has for participants feeling part of the Parliament, which many of them will not have previously visited.
While Panels need to be resourced properly to be effective, we believe that the Blueprint sets out proposals that are realistic...
Committee reports
Date published:
21 December 2022
Committee scrutiny
The Committee's scrutiny of the original draft involved a call for views, stakeholder engagement, visits and cross-committee work to ensure that as far as possible all aspects of NPF4 and all views on it were taken into account.
Paragraph 3 of the protocol acknowledges that the Scottish Government and the Scottish Parliament recognise that it may be necessary to re-visit the protocol to consider whether its provisions should apply to other legislation relating to the UK’s withdrawal from the EU.
Or was the recommendation that the exceptional circumstances test should be extended to summary procedure and should apply to those with analogous summary convictions?