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Exploring the introduction of a digital sales tax in Scotland will be progressed in line with the Scottish Government’s fiscal and tax policy making cycle and will monitor closely the UK Government’s planned forthcoming consultation on the arguments for and against an online sales tax, following the conclusion of their fundamental review of business rates t...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
26 February 2025
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-33090 by Ivan McKee on 16 January 2025, what procurement process was followed to buy each bicycle, and whether it will confirm each bicycle's (a) make, (b) model, (c) cost and (d) country of origin.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
17 January 2025
Communities may then be able to purchase this land, including through existing community rights to buy powers, where a community body may not have expected that the land would be sold.On sustainable land use practices, Part 2 of the Bill provides for a new land management tenancy to enable people and communities to undertake a range of land management activ...
Under the Community Empowerment Act (2015), communities are, however, able to request a right to buy, lease, manage or use land and buildings belonging to local authorities, Scottish public bodies or Scottish Ministers.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
20 September 2022
However, throughout the pandemic, a UK-wide approach to the procurement of therapeutics has been taken and has proven vital to allow the UK to have the buying power to secure significant numbers of therapeutics in a competitive global market.
If our refuse collection crews identify that the wrong items are in a bin, they will tag it and not lift it, and they will include that information in the in-cab system, which goes to our contact centre. If someone in the contact centre gets a call from a resident to say that their bin has been missed, which is quite common—it is not common that bins are missed, but it is quite common that people report that we have not lifted bins—the contact centre can say right away that it was not lifted because it was contaminated with the wrong items, and we can arrange a follow-up visit from our waste education team.
We need to use the working groups and contacts that we have for user research and policy development to assist us in designing the monitoring and evaluation system to ensure that it is fit for purpose.