This search includes all content on the Scottish Parliament website, except for Votes and Motions. All Official Reports (what has been said in Parliament) and Questions and Answers are available from 1999. You can refine your search by adding and removing filters.
Their energy and contribution are vital in adding value and in delivering a green recovery.
The Committee considers that Scotland’s land reform process has created the opportunity for communities to build resilience through diversification of land use and to create high quality, permanent jobs.
Drafting points
Rule 9.14.12 sets out the circumstances in which the member who lodged the final proposal obtains the right to introduce a Bill to give effect to it.
Charities (Regulation and Administration) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2 Good morning, and welcome to the 14th meeting in 2023 of the Social Justice and Social Security Committee.
We are joined by Professor David Heald, who is emeritus professor in the Adam Smith business school at the University of Glasgow; Bill Howat and Keith Yates, who are members of the Mercat group; and Alison Payne, who is research director at Reform Scotland.
We have a duty to ensure that we do our best for people who are fleeing such circumstances, and the Domestic Abuse (Protection) (Scotland) Bill, which has now been introduced, should be helpful in that regard.
The committee is currently scrutinising the Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill and, of course, we will be in close communication with the committee on that.
Col 34 Kieran Buxton of Burges Salmon also argued that the right to withhold rent could lead to wrongful diligence, i.e., debt enforcement, being carried out for unpaid rent, creating further legal complications, as the Bill is not clear enough on this point.