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Further provisions would allow the Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament to propose an election date that is either four weeks earlier or eight weeks later than it would typically be held.
A little bit of that has been done to date through the chief medical officer for Scotland’s review of the implications of the Cass review, what it means and which of those recommendations are relevant for Scotland and which ones are less relevant because of differences in the models.
I work closely with Councillor Paul Kelly of the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities, and we have agreed on work that is to be done across Scotland on giving people patient discharge dates, discharging before noon and weekend discharge.
It decided that the 28-day clock would start ticking from the date of service of the asylum decision, not from the date of issuance of the biometric residence permit card, which is the pivotal document that people need to be able to move from the asylum system to other systems of housing and social security.
The UK Government originally wanted everything to fall off a cliff edge, unless it legislated to retain laws before the proposed date at the end of this year. There was then a realisation in Whitehall that there were all kinds of risks involved in that: there were capacity issues about managing the bill; the approach was not sensible in the first place; the...