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Committee reports
Date published:
6 July 2022
Report on inquiry into Future Parliamentary procedures and practices - Proxy voting
Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party agreed that there would be a value in a proxy voting scheme for maternity and paternity cover and suggested that a pilot could start shortly after the summer recess in 2022. It observed:
This Parliament should encourage people of all ages and life stages to be an MSP and should account for life events, such as having...
Committees
Published:
13 December 2021
Pre Budget scrutiny 2022 to 2023
I hope you and the Committee members have an enjoyable Christmas recess.
Yours sincerely
Shirley-Anne Somerville
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Committee reports
Date published:
24 March 2021
Economy, Energy and Fair Work Committee: Legacy Report - Covid-19 inquiry
In our report, we recognised that Covid-19 has triggered the most severe economic recession in almost a century. We looked at business support, the impact on supply chains and the need for a place-based approach to be taken to promoting economic recovery.
Committee reports
Date published:
4 March 2021
Subordinate Legislation Considered by the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee on 2 March 2021 - Scrutiny of instruments under the Committee’s remit: instruments drawn to the attention of the lead committee
Section 28(2) of the Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 requires that negative instruments are laid at least 28 days before they come into force, not counting recess periods of more than 4 days. As this instrument was laid on 23 February 2021 and comes into force immediately before 4 March 2021, it has therefore breached this rule.
Committee reports
Date published:
23 February 2021
Standing Order Rule Changes - Inquiry into the resilience of the Scottish Parliament's practices and procedures in relation to its business - A new Rule to allow for temporary changes to Standing Orders
The timeframe for these variations and suspensions being in place has been extended on three occasionsiThe variations and suspensions were initially agreed until the beginning of the 2020 summer recess. They were subsequently extended from 26 June 2020 until 9 October 2020, then from 9 October 2020 until 24 December 2020, and finally from 23 December 2020 u...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
2 September 2019
Preparing for a no-deal Brexit - Scottish Government economic analysis of no-deal
Addressing the Scottish Parliament on 6 February 2019, the Cabinet Secretary for Government Business and Constitutional Relations said that a no-deal Brexit:
would have the potential to generate a significant economic shock that could tip the Scottish economy into recession—potentially a deep one. It would also have a severe impact on the labour market, pot...
Committee reports
Date published:
29 May 2019
Subordinate legislation considered by the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee on 28 May 2019
The Scottish Government has undertaken to the Parliament to make these corrections before the start of the summer recess.
The Scottish Government has chosen to lay this instrument under the negative procedure and has categorised it as Low in terms of significance under the SSI Protocol.
Committee reports
Date published:
21 May 2019
Annual Report 2018-19 - Commissioner Complaints
The Committee recommended that the Parliament should agree to:
exclude Mark McDonald from proceedings of the Parliament for a period of one month which would not overlap with any period of recess;
withdraw his salary for a period of one month to coincide with his exclusion from proceedings of the Parliament;
withdraw his right of access as a member to the H...
Committee reports
Date published:
22 May 2017
Let's Talk About Personal and Social Education - Expertise required to teach Personal and Social Education
Retrieved from <a href="http://www.parliament.scot/S5_Equal_Opps/Meeting%20Papers/EHRiC_Meeitng_agenda_and_papers_20161110_.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.parliament.scot/S5_Equal_Opps/Meeting%20Papers/EHRiC_Meeitng_agenda_and_papers_20161110_.pdf</a>
The Committee welcomes this work and would be interested in a progress report from the Scottish Government at the end of the summer recess when all these pieces of work will be complete.
Last updated:
12 February 2021
SPBill80AS052021
P ART 6 R EMEDIAL REGULATIONS 30 32 Remedial regulations (1) In the circumstances set out in subsection (2), the Scottish Ministers may by regulations (“remedial regulations”) make such provision as they consider necessary or expedient in consequence of— (a) any provision of affected legislation, or 35 (c) any exercise or purported exercise of functions by a member of the Scottish Government, which is or may be incompatible with the UNCRC requirements. (2) The circumstances are that the Scottish Ministers consider that there are compelling reasons for making remedial regulations as distinct from taking any other action. 22 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Incorporation) (Scotland) Bill Part 6—Remedial regulations (3) Remedial regulations may— (a) relate to— (i) all cases to which the power to make it extends, (ii) those cases subject to specified exceptions, or 5 (iii) any particular case or type of case, (b) modify any enactment (including this Act) or prerogative instrument or any other instrument or document relating to the exercise or purported exercise of functions by the Scottish Ministers, (c) create criminal offences (but see subsection (4)), 10 (d) make provision (other than provision creating criminal offences or increasing the punishment for criminal offences) which has retrospective effect, (e) provide for the delegation of functions. (4) The maximum penalties that may be provided for in remedial regulations are— (a) on summary conviction, imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or a 15 fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale (or both), (b) on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years. (5) In this section, “affected legislation” means an enactment (whenever enacted) that it would be within the legislative competence of the Scottish Parliament to make— (a) that comprises— 20 (i) an Act of the Scottish Parliament, (ii) an Act of Parliament, or (b) that is wholly or partly made by virtue of an enactment mentioned in paragraph (a). (6) For the purposes of subsection (5), an enactment that extends to Scotland and other 25 jurisdictions is not, for that reason alone, to be regarded as outside the legislative competence of the Scottish Parliament. 33 Remedial regulations: procedure (1) Remedial regulations are subject to the affirmative procedure. (2) Before laying a draft of a Scottish statutory instrument containing remedial regulations 30 before the Scottish Parliament, the Scottish Ministers must— (a) lay a copy of the proposed draft regulations, together with a document setting out their reasons for proposing to make the regulations, before the Scottish Parliament, (b) give such public notice of the contents of the proposed draft regulations as they 35 consider appropriate and invite persons wishing to make observations on the draft regulations to do so, in writing, within the comment period, (c) have regard to any written observations submitted within the comment period. (3) In subsection (2)(b), the “comment period” means the period of 60 days beginning with— 40 (a) the day on which the public notice was given, United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Incorporation) (Scotland) Bill 23 Part 6—Remedial regulations (b) if earlier, the day on which the draft regulations were laid, or (c) if both (a) and (b) happened on the same day, that day. (4) Along with a draft of a Scottish statutory instrument containing remedial regulations, the Scottish Ministers must also lay before the Scottish Parliament a document which— 5 (a) summarises the observations to which they had regard under subsection (2)(c), and (b) sets out the changes (if any) which they have made to the remedial regulations and the reasons for them. (5) In calculating the period of 60 days for the purpose of subsection (3), no account is to be 10 taken of any period during which the Scottish Parliament is— (a) in recess...
