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This highlights the importance of a green recovery and ensuring as many positive behavioural changes as possible are kept, enabling the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body to reach future targets.
The experience of the US Senate shows that between 1981 and 1992 90% of nominations were confirmed (many of the others were withdrawn); this leaves approximately 5% of “hearings” which rejected the nominee, resulting in the need to re-advertise etc.
The SFC stated that since the FWDF began in 2017-18, over 1300 levy paying companies have accessed the fund, with many employers returning each year to upskill their employees.
The Committee notes the strong views expressed by many stakeholders that some targets or more detailed outcomes on the face of the bill are essential to drive progress; and strong views expressed by other stakeholders that statutory targets or more detailed outcomes would restrict the Scottish Ministers’ flexibility. 42.
There is the EU side, but there is also the domestic side after withdrawal, which would require a lot of legislative change in order to de-EU British law. EU law is embedded in many statutory provisions and I would envisage that that would probably take place over the long term.
Sometimes we can track real-time indicators and see clear numbers across many years, but sometimes we cannot. Value is about considering narrative and numbers together.
I am keen to make sure that improvement of the environment and of the legislation can be achieved through ESS. I have worked on many complex issues from nuclear to waste to many of the different regulatory sides of environment.