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Retrieved from https://www.thenational.scot/news/24778527.john-swinney-hails-relations-labour-compared-tories/ [accessed 7 July 2025] The First Minister and Prime Minister held bilateral meetings on the same dates as the meetings of the Council of the Nations and Regions in October 20247The Herald. (2024).
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In her response, the Minister referred to her letter to the Committee of 20 December, which stated –
The main reason for moving from animal welfare codes to guidance is to provide a more practical method for good practice information to be published and updated quickly in order to keep stockkeepers up to date with developing scientific evidence and the late...
The Minister explained that, following the Barclay Review of non-domestic rates, the Scottish Government had "strengthened revaluations to ensure that they more closely reflect market circumstances" by increasing the frequency of revaluations from five-yearly to three-yearly and reducing the time between tone date and revaluation. The next revaluation had also been delayed by one year to 2023 and the Scottish Government had brought forward its commitment to a one-year tone date "which will be 1 April 2022."
With robust monitoring systems in place (as discussed later in the report), there is the opportunity to learn from experience and to benefit from technological advances between now and the target date.
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1 September 2017
This makes it all the more important that the process is based on as much up to date and relevant data as possible. The Committee considers that TWPAG’s workforce planning process has an over emphasis on vacancies.
I became a member of the European and External Relations Committee on the last sitting day before summer recess in 2008. Having gone off for recess, I ended up having major surgery in the first week back in September, and I was then off for all of September and October.
However, the private sector has been struggling to get back up to pre-recession levels of building. The latest statistics show that things are starting to turn, so it is looking promising.
Just to provide some clarification, I point out that the supplementary financial memorandum was published on 31 January. As there was a recess, we did not really have an opportunity to discuss or take evidence on it before today.