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It is important that that be based on relevant and up-to-date data, so I am happy to respond on the question of where we are now with the collection of such data and to give an indication of where we intend to go with it.
Are you able to help the committee understand when precisely before recess the Government became aware that there would be a shortage, and how much time elapsed after that date before it first informed Parliament of the situation?
That was due to the timing of the notification of the proposals from Westminster, which coincided with the Scottish Parliament recess. I am pleased to advise—as I did in writing yesterday—that officials have worked with their counterparts to negotiate revised laying dates at Westminster, which now gives the committee...
The intention to move to 3 yearly revaluations in Scotland from 2022 with valuations based on market conditions on a date one year prior was confirmed on 12 September.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
27 October 2016
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-03360 by Keith Brown on 12 October 2016, with which business organisations and financial institutions it has met to date, and on what date each meeting was held.
Sure—but my question was whether you are content to say that replacement regulations will appear before the committee before the summer recess. I am very hopeful that that will happen.
The rules are that a spent conviction for an offence on schedule 8B will appear on a higher level disclosure for:15 years, if 18 or over at the date of conviction;7 years and 6 months, if under 18 at the date of conviction.