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Committees 5 7 (1) Environmental Standards Scotland may establish committees. (2) The membership of a committee may include (but may not consist entirely of) persons who are not members of Environmental Standards Scotland but those persons are not entitled to vote at meetings....
Committees 5 7 (1) Environmental Standards Scotland may establish committees. (2) The membership of a committee may include (but may not consist entirely of) persons who are not members of Environmental Standards Scotland but those persons are not entitled to vote at meetings....
The vast majority of complaints come from members of the public. Those people may or may not be politically active—I do not follow that up because motivation is not an issue as far as I am concerned.
The work to improve the implementation rate did not stop there. In May 2019, the DPLR Committee agreed to the remit of a working group to review the Presiding Officer’s criteria for designating bills as Scottish Law Commission bills that may be referred to the committee for scrutiny.
That power was intended to apply to small-scale outbreaks, such as E coli outbreaks, in which a small number of households may be isolated for a short period of time and may lose out on income as a result.
With the latest opinion poll predicting that there will be only seven Tory MSPs after May’s election, the Tories’ strategy, such as it is, is entirely self-defeating.
There has been a lot of hot air, heat and argument about what the Opposition parties may or may not have been saying. Let me set the position out very clearly in numbers.
As soon as a Public Bill (i.e. a Government, Committee or Member’s Bill) has completed Stage 1, amendments for consideration at Stage 2 may be lodged; and as soon as Stage 2 is completed, amendments for Stage 3 consideration may be lodged.