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The Committee is currently considering the Bill at Stage 1 and has held one oral evidence session to date hearing from electoral administrators and regulatory bodies on 8 May 2025.
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The UK Government said it supported this proposed change in principle and will look at making relevant amendments to the Bill in future (see the associated BBC news article, dated 11 March 2025).
Some election expenditure arranged prior to postponement is unlikely to be repeated for a new polling day (e.g. in voter registration or for re-using ballot papers despite being printed with the original date) but other costs may have to be incurred anew. (…)
The overall conclusion is that the Bill’s provisions on emergency re-scheduling of elections are no...
The Committee then wrote to the Minister for Victims and Community Safety to highlight the evidence received to date and ask further questions of the Minister.
For example, a year ago, the UK body, the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council, made a recommendation about four particular illnesses that are related to COVID-19. To date, the UK Government has not acted on that information.
In June 2023, the Scottish Government published a paper ‘Devolution since the Brexit Referendum’ which addressed many of the same areas as the CEEAC Committee has in its work to date this session.
The Scottish Government published its 2023-24 Budget on 15 December 2022 and the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care responded to the Committee's pre-budget scrutiny letter on that same date.
The Committee concluded this budget scrutiny exercise by taking evidence from the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care at its meeting on 10 January 20...