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One of the advantages, if I can call it that, of having had an election shortly before a recess is that, as a Government minister—I am learning this as we go along—I could use that recess time to bed into the job.
Addressing the Crisis in Social Care Now: Jackie Baillie moved S6M- 15613—That the Parliament notes that the Scottish Government formally committed to introduce a National Care Service (Scotland) Bill in September 2021; further notes that the Scottish Government's proposed amendment to part one of the Bill setting out the establishment of a National Care Service board has been roundly rejected by stakeholders; understands that the cost to date...
Agenda item 5 Any other business On this occasion no further business was raised. Agenda item 6 Date of the next Cross Party Group meeting The next hybrid meeting will take place sometime in Q1 2024.
The programme is available here: https://www.gov.scot/publications/scottish-government-and-scottish- green-party-shared-policy-programme/ Joe FitzPatrick is here in an individual capacity as an MSP, and not in his role as convener of the Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice 3 Committee, however he stated that the Committee had met before summer recess...
The Scottish Government has agreed that in SR years, it will publish the following prior to summer recess, in order to allow time for parliamentary scrutiny and input:
a framework document setting out the economic and political context
the criteria which will govern the assessment of budgets
the process and timetable for review.
It is intended that the proposal will be further discussed with Scottish parliamentary authorities with a view to the Parliament going into a pre-election recess ahead of the new dissolution date.
This will be submitted prior to parliamentary recess on 25 March and will be the first of regular quarterly updates on progress, as requested by the committee in their report on ferry procurement.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
22 January 2020
Officials are also working to finalise an illustrative timetable and, ideally, the regulations will come into force prior to the Summer recess. S5W-26932