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At this point, it would be a bit dangerous to specify what will be ingathered and how it will be held, because that information could be out of date in six months’ time—and it would almost certainly be out of date in a year or two.
However, many witnesses and respondents to the call for evidence talked about the lack of a commencement date in the bill and the need for that date to be clear.
Is it feasible for the DWP to move the date on which it pays someone UC to match the date on which their employer pays them—the last Friday of the month or the last day of the month, for example?
Item 3 is a review of the evidence that we have received to date on the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Bill at stage 1, and item 5 is consideration of our work programme.
At the same time though, does the committee welcome the fact that the Scottish Government has since laid a further commencement order to rectify that, which the committee will consider at a later date?Members indicated agreement.
The measure punishes landlords who have been unlucky and who have been hit by the downturn and the recession, without doing anything positive to bring the properties back into use.The direction of travel in Wales seems to be the opposite to that in Scotland.
One instrument this quarter was reported under the significant reporting ground (e), 'there appears to be a doubt whether it is intra vires' by the Committee:
Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 (Non-Party Campaigner Code of Practice) (Appointed Date) (Scotland) Order 2025 (SSI 2025/288) on 11 November 2025.
The Committee also notes correspondence dated 18 December 2024 received from the Director-General Economy 4The Scottish Government. (2024, December 18).
Under section 14(a) the Scottish Ministers may by regulations amend the time periods of 15 years or 6 years (for those under 18 at the time of conviction) when the date of discharge falls in section 9(1) – that is the date when a domestic abuse offender subject to the indefinite notification requirements would be due...