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Mr Greer's amendment provided that the consultation period would be 60 days, not including periods of recess. The Government introduced amendments to shorten this timescale to 40 days.
Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party agreed that there would be a value in a proxy voting scheme for maternity and paternity cover and suggested that a pilot could start shortly after the summer recess in 2022. It observed:
This Parliament should encourage people of all ages and life stages to be an MSP and should account for life events, such as having...
I hope you and the Committee members have an enjoyable Christmas recess.
Yours sincerely
Shirley-Anne Somerville
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In our report, we recognised that Covid-19 has triggered the most severe economic recession in almost a century. We looked at business support, the impact on supply chains and the need for a place-based approach to be taken to promoting economic recovery.
Section 28(2) of the Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 requires that negative instruments are laid at least 28 days before they come into force, not counting recess periods of more than 4 days. As this instrument was laid on 23 February 2021 and comes into force immediately before 4 March 2021, it has therefore breached this rule.
Committee reports
Date published:
23 February 2021
The timeframe for these variations and suspensions being in place has been extended on three occasionsiThe variations and suspensions were initially agreed until the beginning of the 2020 summer recess. They were subsequently extended from 26 June 2020 until 9 October 2020, then from 9 October 2020 until 24 December 2020, and finally from 23 December 2020 u...
Addressing the Scottish Parliament on 6 February 2019, the Cabinet Secretary for Government Business and Constitutional Relations said that a no-deal Brexit:
would have the potential to generate a significant economic shock that could tip the Scottish economy into recession—potentially a deep one. It would also have a severe impact on the labour market, pot...
The Scottish Government has undertaken to the Parliament to make these corrections before the start of the summer recess.
The Scottish Government has chosen to lay this instrument under the negative procedure and has categorised it as Low in terms of significance under the SSI Protocol.
The Committee recommended that the Parliament should agree to:
exclude Mark McDonald from proceedings of the Parliament for a period of one month which would not overlap with any period of recess;
withdraw his salary for a period of one month to coincide with his exclusion from proceedings of the Parliament;
withdraw his right of access as a member to the H...
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The Committee welcomes this work and would be interested in a progress report from the Scottish Government at the end of the summer recess when all these pieces of work will be complete.