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Specifically, what role should Parliament, stakeholders and the wider public have in relation to the decisions on whether to keep pace and to early engagement in the policy development process, especially when there are opportunities for ministerial discretion in how to keep pace?
We are also clear that EU exit must not impede our ability to maintain high environmental standards. We will develop proposals to ensure that we maintain the role of environmental principles and effective and proportionate environmental governance and any legislative measures required will be taken forward in the Continuity Bill.
Committee reports
Date published:
17 December 2019
Therefore, the likelihood of care-experienced people going on to develop a pattern of adulthood offending means that they are precisely the people whose childhood convictions, by implication, will be disclosed.
However, despite the absence of a global instrument recognising a human right to a healthy environment, human rights norms relating to the environment have developed with the "greening" of human rights law - explored later in the briefing.15Framework Principles on Human Rights and the Environment (2018). (2018, March 05).
For example, the land reform debate in Scotland, which in the past was often associated with historical events, is increasingly characterised by an approach which takes account of sustainable development, the public interest and the balancing of ESC rights with property rights.
The research is based on analysis of the results of the London Travel Demand Survey and a bespoke Cycle Market Segmentation tool developed by TfL. This research found that nearly two thirds of potentially cyclable trips are currently made by car and four in ten potentially cyclable trips are made for shopping and leisure purposes.
Tax cuts in support of aviation growth and increased emissions are likely to have detrimental impacts on climate change, the development of Scotland’s low carbon economy, and the natural environment.
Among the issues for which the minister and his Government have responsibility is the funding of local government. A number of members have illustrated the problems that local government budgets are facing because of unprecedented rises in costs.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
19 August 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what development priorities have been identified in respect of the Indian Subcontinent Development Programme and by whom.