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The Coronavirus (Scotland) Acts (Amendment of Expiry Dates) Regulations 2021 were also laid in draft at the same time to provide for the extension of the Acts to this date.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
29 October 2020
I also engaged with political parties on the Information Sharing Bill over a range of dates, however we do not hold a list of dates on which such routine, informal conversations took place.
Following further strikes on Thursday 23 June, Saturday 25 June and Sunday 26 June the remaining dates are Sundays 3, 10 and 17 July with additional action short of strike action on a number of dates through June and July.
I raised that point with the previous panel before the recess. I was quite taken aback by what Professor Scott said about the six-course choice coming from ADES—that is not my understanding of the situation.
I bore quite a heavy responsibility over the summer recess, because I knew that each of the councils’ representations that I received was deeply felt.
Scrutiny at other legislatures
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We are talking about year-on-year emissions reductions of 3, 4, or 5 per cent by the target date, but no country in the world has delivered that outside of a big recession.