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The UK Government’s position on EU Funding Guarantees demonstrates in the starkest possible terms that there are absolutely no guarantees or clarity on what will replace current European Union funding streams after the date that the UK proposes to leave the EU.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
27 September 2016
We note the committee's acknowledgement that Scotland would have met all of its fixed annual targets to date, had it not been for technical changes to the way greenhouse gas emissions are accounted for.
We are doing our business planning for the next financial year but, ideally, I would like to get something to you before the summer recess, because the issue is important to me and needs to be looked at early.
I am happy to support the creation of the group but I suggest that we pencil into our work programme, perhaps towards the end of the first year of the session—just before the summer recess next year—a session where we take an overview of how CPGs are working in general and how broad their external memberships are.
That is the rate of non-application or rejection because of a mismatch of signature or date of birth. In essence, if a signature or date of birth on the postal voting statement does not match to the returning officer’s satisfaction, the returning officer will deem the postal voting statement not to have been duly com...