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SPICe briefings
Date published:
25 January 2018
Historical Sexual Offences (Pardons and Disregards) (Scotland) Bill - Applications to the disregard scheme
The presumption is that an application for disregard is granted unless:
The offence is not a historical sexual offence, or
The conduct to which the conviction relates would still amount to an offence on the date of the bill coming into force.
Ministers are then required to:
record their determination and the reasons for it in writing
provide notice of their...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
3 November 2017
Scottish Building Standards and Fire Safety: A Brief Overview - Scottish Ministerial Working Group on Building and Fire Safety
The work programme focuses on nine key work streams:
Information and intelligence gathering on use of Aluminium Composite Material (ACM) cladding
Review of building regulations for high rise domestic buildings and high rise non-domestic buildings with sleeping accommodation
Review of approval and enforcement of building regulations
Review of fire safety regime and regulatory framework for high rise domestic buildings
Consultation on revised and consolidated guidance on Fire Safety Risk Assessment of (non-domestic) premises which provide sleeping accommodation
Overview by Scottish Fire and Rescue Service of their operational assurance visits regarding fire safety in domestic high-rises
Review of evidence on automatic fire suppression systems (normally known as sprinklers)
Consultation on smoke and fire detection standards
Targeted fire safety campaign for high rise domestic properties
The group has met six times to date...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
14 September 2017
Gender Representation on Public Boards (Scotland) Bill - Executive Summary
Issues raised in the consultation included whether:
more groups should be included
the Bill is inclusive of transgender people
higher education institutions should be subject to the Bill
there should be accountability, such as reporting or sanctions (there was no reporting provision in the draft Bill)
there should be published guidance on the Bill
there should be a target date for achieving the objective (this was not in the draft Bill).
SPICe briefings
Date published:
14 September 2017
Gender Representation on Public Boards (Scotland) Bill - The consultation
Several respondents suggested that the legislation should include target dates for achieving the Bill’s objective and that there should be some form of sanction for non-compliance.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
21 June 2017
Local Government Finance: facts and figures 2010-11 to 2017-18 - Real terms change
LG Finance Order figures suggest that there will be a 2.2% drop in the local government revenue budget between 2016-17 and 2017-18iNote that this figure differs from that presented in SB16/103 on Draft Budget 2017-18 as that briefing uses Draft Budget figures rather than the the more up to date Local Government Finance Order figures used here..
Committee reports
Date published:
31 May 2017
Subordinate Legislation considered on 30 May 2017 - Instruments subject to negative procedure
The Committee finds the failure to comply with section 28(2) to be acceptable in the circumstances as set out in the letter from the Head of Marine Conservation on behalf of the Scottish Ministers to the Presiding Officer dated 18 May 2017.
Committee reports
Date published:
9 May 2017
Subordinate Legislation considered on 9 May 2017 - Points raised: instruments subject to negative procedure
The Regulations omit to amend paragraph 14 of schedule 1 of the Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications and Deemed Applications) (Scotland) Regulations 2004 (S.S.I. 2004/219), to reflect the increased fees stated in the new table of fees in these Regulations.
Paragraph 14, as amended to date, provides that where an application is for planning permi...
Committee reports
Date published:
3 May 2017
Sport for Everyone Interim Report - Volunteers
The Scottish Sports Association noted:
Another significant legacy opportunity from the Games was converting the unparalleled interest in volunteering at the Games (50,811 applications in total) into sustained volunteering interest; to date our understanding is that this supported conversion has been minimal.Scottish Sports Association written submission (pa...
Committee reports
Date published:
3 April 2017
Report on Deer Management in Scotland: Report to the Scottish Government from Scottish Natural Heritage 2016 - Code of Practice on Deer Management
The first review must be carried out within 3 years of section 79 of the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2016 coming into force, and subsequent reviews are to be carried out within three years of the date on which the report in respect of the previous review was laid before the Scottish Parliament.
Official Report
Meeting date:
4 November 2009
Public Audit Committee, 04 Nov 2009
ROS has indicated to us that it will continue to keep its fees under regular review and that it will act should the position change because the recession has a deeper impact than is currently anticipated.In summary, ROS incurred a large operating deficit in 2008-09 and forecasts more deficits in future.
