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Covid-19 Lockdown (Short-term Lets with Communal Stairways) The First Minister gave an indicative date of 3 July for opening self-contained self-catering accommodation without shared facilities.
It is important to note that laying instruments in recess does not ordinarily reduce the time that is available for parliamentary scrutiny, because standing orders preserve the amount of scrutiny time by excluding any recess period longer than four days.
Dates such as 6 July, when we recall Piper Alpha, 6 November, the date of the Chinook crash off Sumburgh, and 27 December, the date of the helicopter crash in Morecambe Bay, are all dates when tragedies occurred.
As a result of that evidence session, we were keen to get more information on why an apparently arbitrary date was set for the application of the rule.