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S6W-22992 Ash Regan: To ask the Scottish Government what steps it will take to prevent the sale of illegal fireworks, following the recent fireworks-related disorder in the Edinburgh Eastern constituency.
We expected prices and transactions to fall in 2024-25 in a continuation of their trend from 2023-24, before returning to growth in 2025-26. Instead, they returned to growth in 2024-25.
The SNP pledged in its manifesto to build at least 50,000 new affordable homes over the course of this session of Parliament, but the latest statistics show that last year only 7,300 such homes were built.
Solicitors in the Supreme Courts of Scotland (Amendment) Bill
Bill Number: SP Bill 55
Introduced on: 26 September 2019
Introduced by: Society of Solicitors in the Supreme Courts of Scotland (Private Bill)
Passed: 3 December 2020
Royal Assent: 20 January 2021
Passage of the Bill
The Solicitors in the Supreme Courts of Scotland (Amendment) Bill (the Bill) is a Private Bill which was introduced in the Scottish Parliament on 26 September 2019 by the Society of Solicitors in the Supreme Courts of Scotland ("the Promoter").
These amendments extended to Scotland provisions covering-
offensive weapons,
online sales of knives and crossbows,
child criminal exploitation prevention orders,
child sex abuse image generators,
possession of advice or guidance about creating child sexual abuse (CSA) or CSA images, and
providing for a technology testing defence and creating new offences relating to pornographic images of strangulation or suffocation in Scotland.
We attach a link to the relevant part of the SCJC website SCJC meeting - 26 April 2021 - papers and minutes from which you can access the relevant policy paper with accompanying documents and the minutes of the SCJC meeting of 26 April (at which the instrument was approved by members).
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