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According to the Scottish Commission for Learning Disability’s research, the employment rate for people with a learning disability sits between 7 and 25 per cent, when Scotland’s national employment rate is 73 per cent.
Thank you for that assurance, minister. Clause 7 protects the Northern Ireland Act 1998 but there is no such protection for the Scotland and Wales acts.
The Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee raised concerns about the unusually wide scope of section 7(4), which will enable amendments to be made to part 1 through secondary legislation.
My questions are really directed to Cathy Tilbrook, as the representative of SNH, which is number 28 of the public bodies that are listed as “relevant authorities” in the schedule to the bill. Section 7(1) says: “A relevant authority must have regard to island communities in carrying out its functions”.
As you know, international agreements, including those with the EU, are reserved to the United Kingdom under paragraph 7 of schedule 5 to the Scotland Act 1998.
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