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Review of relevant powers
Section 1: Targets for improving biodiversity - new section 2C: duty to set targets
Power conferred on: Scottish Ministers
Power exercisable by: Regulations made by Scottish statutory instrument Parliamentary procedure: Affirmative (with additional preconditions amounting to ‘super-affirmative’)
Provision
Section 1 of the Bill ...
Moreover, the younger that people start, the more likely they are to smoke for longer and to die early as a result. Worst of all, someone who starts smoking at 15 is three times more likely to die of cancer than someone who starts in their mid-20s.
New Lanark is one of the digital imaging projects featured on the Scottish ten website, where there is a modern, hi-tech, 3-D image mapping of the town.
An immediate increase to £12 per hour would provide a 26 per cent uplift in pay from the 2021-22 real living wage of £9.50 per hour, at an estimated cost of around £470 million.
The committee’s report is an important milestone on the journey, but it is also a clear signpost that points the way forward. 17:26 As the deputy convener of the Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform Committee, I am pleased to close the debate.
A month ago, Fiona Hyslop said: “We will need a revolution in economic thinking”.—Official Report, 26 May 2020; c 32. I cannot help but note a disjunction between that argument and the outcome of the report, which falls far short of being revolutionary.
Human Rights Defenders The next item of business is a debate on motion S5M-20192, in the name of Christina McKelvie, on reaffirming Scotland’s support for human rights defenders. 15:26 Today is human rights day. Each year, 10 December is celebrated around the world as the date in 1948 on which the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the U...
What is the point of any of this if we do not understand what the artists want to make, how they want to make it and what they need in order to do that? I have been in Scotland for 26 years, so I remember when the Scottish Arts Council did assessments.