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I thank the minister and her officials for taking part in the meeting and for providing us with the background for a report on the LCM, which the committee will publish before the summer recess. I will briefly suspend the meeting in order to set up the room for the next witnesses. 10:04 Meeting suspended. 10:10 On resuming—
We are not quite at that stage yet, despite the positive reports and, if we move too quickly, by the time the Parliament returns after recess, I suspect that members from around the chamber would look at me and ask why I did it and prolonged the agony that we are living through.
That would mean that scrutiny would have to take place under an emergency timetable with all stages of the bill happening in one day after the October recess. The agreement of the UK law officers, the Lord Advocate and the Secretary of State for Scotland to expedited royal procedures would be required so that the Bill could be similarly enacted by 26 Novemb...
This will be submitted prior to parliamentary recess on 25 March and will be the first of regular quarterly updates on progress, as requested by the committee in their report on ferry procurement. Â
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
22 January 2020
Officials are also working to finalise an illustrative timetable and, ideally, the regulations will come into force prior to the Summer recess. S5W-26932
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
20 September 2018
The Scottish Government will publish the draft independence referendum bill as announced in the programme for government before the pre-election recess begins. Does the cabinet secretary not accept that it is completely irresponsible timing to bring forward that bill when the priority needs to be recovering from the Covid-19 pandemic and putting all our ene...
There has been a failure to lay the instrument in accordance with section 28(2) of the Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010, which requires that negative instruments be laid at least 28 days before they come into force, not counting recess periods of more than four days.