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Witnesses pointed to some parts of the country, such as parts of the north-east of Scotland where they said, “there was nothing like Alcoholics Anonymous that people could get to unless they had a car and travelled an hour or so to the nearest city”.
Committee reports
Date published:
12 December 2025
Money laundering is on the rise, as we know from our partnership work with banks, which highlight suspicious activity".iiiCriminal Justice Committee, Official Report 5 November 2025, (Cols 27-28).
a fifth of people still spend less than two hours researching whether to get a puppy [?] and nearly a third admit that they would not know how to spot a rogue breeder?.
iiScottish Parliament, Official Report, 2 February 2017, Col 41 The conditions of this are—
"the public body fully controls that company in a similar way to its own departments
the publicly owned company carries out at least 80 per cent of its activities with the public body."iiiAudit Scotland (2017).
I am writing to advise that our plan is now to lay the Licensing Order in November, and to explain the reasons for this change.
We remain committed to getting this legislation absolutely right.