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The committee previously approved the revised direction, and it is now required to approve the commencement date and transitional arrangements, which are set out in the cover note that members received.
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.
It was quite clear that there is a real need to get the bypass work done early. I do not know where the Easter date came from: the first that I heard of that date was from Mr Ewing himself.
The order cannot be made unless Parliament approves the draft and this is not expected to be considered until after the summer recess. No announcement will be made until after Parliament’s decision.
The UK order has jurisdiction because it deals with reserved tax matters, whereas the Scottish order deals with circumstances in which, at some future date, the director general of the ESO—or a person who is authorised to act in his or her stead—might be a British national.