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23 June 2021
Minute
Minute.
1st Meeting, 2021
Date: Wednesday, June 23, 2021
Session: 6
Location: www.scottishparliament.tv
Meeting opened at: 09:15am
Meeting closed at: 09:33am
Committee Members Attendees
Siobhian Brown (Convener)
Jim Fairlie
Murdo Fraser (Deputy Convener)
John Mason
Alex Rowley
Brian Whittle
1 Declaration of interests:
M...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
12 May 2021
Key Issues for Session 6: COVID, Climate and Constitution - Scottish Parliamentary scrutiny to date
Scottish Parliamentary scrutiny to date
In Session 5, the Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform Committee (ECCLR) agreed a series of key objectives for engagement with COP26, including to:
improve scrutiny of climate change by learning from international best practice
develop lasting partnerships with national and international organisations and legi...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
11 May 2021
Election 2021 - Are there any patterns to the election results?
This raises the question of whether voters were supportive of their government because of the way the COVID-19 pandemic has been handled to date.
Committee reports
Date published:
22 March 2021
Justice Committee Annual Report 2020-21 - Children (Scotland) Bill
The Justice Committee issued a call for views in respect of the Bill on 20 September 2019, with a closing date of 15 November 2019. The Committee received 75 responses to its call for evidence and 12 supplementary responses during its Stage 1 scrutiny of the Bill.
Committee reports
Date published:
9 December 2020
Redress for Survivors (Historical Child Abuse in Care) (Scotland) Bill - Stage 1 Report - Call for Views
The Bill’s definition of abuse.
The dates used in the Bill to define ‘historical abuse’.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
1 December 2020
Protection of Workers (Retail and Age-restricted Goods and Services) (Scotland) Bill: consideration prior to stage 3 - About the Bill
About the Bill
Key dates and documents
The Protection of Workers (Retail and Age-restricted Goods and Services) (Scotland) Bill is a Member's Bill.
Committee reports
Date published:
26 November 2020
Scottish General Election (Coronavirus) Bill - Arrangements for new Parliament
Views
David McGill welcomed the flexibility in the Bill for the date of the first meeting of the Parliament to be later than the statutory seven days explaining—
“… so much needs to be done in that period—we need to register and induct members.
Committee reports
Date published:
28 September 2020
Re-opening Scotland's courts and tribunals system - What has been the response of the Scottish Government to the various options and modelling?
The three arguably most radical options from a constitutional perspective – all requiring new primary legislation – have not to date been taken forward. These are: moving to a judge-only trial system for solemn criminal cases, reducing the number of jurors and, finally, altering the sentencing power of sheriff courts (summary and solemn) so that more trials...
Committee reports
Date published:
25 September 2020
UK Withdrawal from the European Union (Continuity) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1 - Delegated Powers
The Committee determined that it did not need to draw the attention of the lead committee to the delegated powers in the following sections of the Bill:
Section 9(4) – Power to add, remove, amend or further define the guiding principles
Section 13(1) – Duty to publish guidance on the guiding principles on the environment
Section 17(1) – Power to modify the functions of Environmental Standards Scotland
Section 44 – Ancillary provision
Section 45 – Commencement
Section 46 – Repeal of Part 1
Schedule 1, paragraph 2(7) – Power to amend the minimum and maximum members of Environmental Standards Scotland
The Committee agreed at its meeting on 19 August 2020 to write to the Scottish Government in relation to the delegated powers in the following sections of the Bill:
Section 1(1) – Power to make provision corresponding to EU law
Section 3(2) – Duration of the section 1(1) power
Section 10(4) – Power to specify matters or circumstances where the duties in sections 10(1) and (2) are not to apply
Section 39(5) – Power to provide that legislation is not environmental law
The response from the Scottish Government dated...
Committee reports
Date published:
4 September 2020
Subordinate Legislation considered by the Covid-19 Committee on 2 September 2020 - The Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Restrictions) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 11) Regulations 2020 (SSI 2020/241)
The Policy Note explains that “these Regulations amend the principal regulations with the effect that a person responsible for hospitality premises is required to collect information about visitors to those premises, including the visitor’s contact details and the date and time of arrival.” The Policy Note further states that the regulations provide “for th...
