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Clause 38 of the Bill gives the Scottish Ministers powers in Scotland to exclude services, networks and stations from the main closure provisions in clauses 22 to 24 and 26 to 31.
This would mirror Statutory Debt Solutions which are time limited. CAS also agrees historic tax credit debt should be written off. In Scotland, commercial debts are prescribed after 6 years, yet benefit claimants are pushed into hardship to repay historic tax credit debts, this is a punitive measure which prolongs ha...
In 2015 we produced a policy report Coping with complexity, examining financial support to kinship carers in Scotland and updated this report in 2022 to take account of the impact of the roll-out of universal credit: Kinship carers and universal credit - lessons in complexity.
The Committee awaits a response.
Professor Paul de Leeuw discussed hydrogen as an opportunity for Scotland, as existing infrastructure could be leveraged to develop hydrogen fuel production.
Instruments subject to negative procedure: The Committee will consider the following— Public Service Vehicles (Registration of Local Services) (Local Services Franchises Transitional Provisions) (Scotland) Regulations 2025 (SSI 2025/137) 4.
We are quite traditional in that respect and we want to continue to do it; however, we recognise that off-site manufacture has a place and that many of our members provide such a service.