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The Bill is now at committee stage in the House of Commons (second house), following which it will move to report stage, the final amending stage by which the Parliament must express a view.
The Procurement Bill
The Bill aims to reform the UK’s public procurement regime to create a “simpler and more transparent system not based on transposed EU Directives”...
In drafting my Bill, I was mindful of the need to include a regulation-making power that would be sufficiently broad as to enable Scottish Ministers to respond effectively to the manner in which the courts may express the incompatibility (paragraph 79, Policy Memorandum).
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Neil Doncaster had previously expressed concerns about the proposal to move the point at which compensation payments should be made to the point of a professional contract being signed:
I have a concern about decoupling movement from the compensation payment.
The thrust of the point being made in paragraph 49 of the Delegated Powers Memorandum is that the Government considers the affirmative procedure to be appropriate because of the significance of the things that can be done under section 45. One way of expressing provision that section 45 allows would be to say that certain provisions of primary legislation are to be treated as applying to a benefit top-up, subject to certain words and expressions being read in a different way.
I think that she would agree that one of the things that has helped people with childcare is the provision of tax credits in general and childcare tax credits in particular.
His response is as follows: The Scottish Prison Service, working in conjunction with Highland and Inverclyde Councils, has conducted site search exercises to identify possible sites for the proposed new prisons.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
12 December 2013
Although the NSPCC has been supportive of that approach in principle, I sound a note of caution on it.Everyone is aware of the lack of resources for the named person. Let us take health visitors’ case loads. We know that there are health visitors with enormous case loads, so the idea of the named person being a suffi...