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International example
KfW in Germany provides an example of a national investment bank using a mission approach to investment1Mazzucato, M., & Macfarlane, L. (2019, March 21).
Letter to the Criminal Justice Committee dated 9 September 2025 (7 pages) 2. Letter to the Criminal Justice Committee dated 9 December 2025 including paper on preventative spend and the Christie Principles (24 pages) 3.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
28 February 2023
Although guided by its missions, which are set by Scottish Ministers, and the legislation within the Scottish National Investment Bank Act 2020, the Bank operates independently.
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The Bill
The Bill has a narrow scope, namely, to make the amendments made by the 2017 Order retrospective, enabling couples who have paid the additional amount of LBTT, in the scenario described, to claim a repayment regardless of the date on which they entered into the contract or the effective date of the transaction.
The change relates only to penalties in respect of land and buildings transaction tax and is to clarify that in the situation where a person has failed to submit a tax return by the filing date, the person becomes liable to pay a penalty 30 days after the filing date and not any later date.
Moira Anderson Foundation submission of 15 August 2022 PE1933/E: Allow the Fornethy Survivors to access Scotland's redress scheme I would like to state that the Moira Anderson Foundation (MAF) firmly believe that the Fornethy Survivors should be allowed access to the redress scheme.
Petitioner submission of 14 July 2022 PE1913/F: Fast-track future Adult Disability Payment applications for people undergoing cancer treatment The recent submission provided by Social Security Scotland does not solve the issue that thousands of people are being refused disability payments under PIP.
We are concerned about the Berwick Bank proposal for offshore wind, which overlaps with 42 per cent of one of sections of the Firth of Forth Banks complex MPA.
S6W-41219 Martin Whitfield: To ask the Scottish Government what information it holds on the proportion of kinship carers who have reported relying on food banks or emergency grants to support the child in their care since May 2021.