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With cross-party support of over 50 MSPs from 5 parties, Jenni Minto MSP wrote to the Chancellor in March 2022 calling for VAT on Community Defibrillators to be scrapped and lodged a motion in the Scottish Parliament in November 2022.
C ity of Glasgow College | 190 Cathedral Street | Glasgow G4 0RF | T: +44 (0)141 375 6821 JM/MB/WO/212212 Tuesday 17 May 2022 Dear Education, Children and Young People Committee, I am writing in response to your letter of 25 April 2022 calling for views into college regionalisation over the past decade and how this ...
A lison Irvine Delegated Powers and Law Reform Head of Cabinet, Parliament and Committee Governance Division [email protected] Scottish Government 9 March 2022 Fireworks and Pyrotechnic Articles (Scotland) Bill at Stage 1 Dear Alison, The Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee considered the above Bill at its meeting on 8 March 2022 and seeks an explanation of the following matters: Section 7(2) – Power to provide for additional mandatory requirements relating to the fireworks licence application process Power conferred on: the Scottish Ministers Power exercisable by: regulations made by Scottish Statutory Instrument Parliamentary procedure: negative Section 7(2) confers a power on the Scottish Ministers by regulations to specify additional mandatory requirements that a fireworks licence applicant must meet before applying for a licence.
The first test of this commitment came in the form of the Environmental Protection (Single- use Plastic Products) (Scotland) Regulations 2021, legislation laid in the Scottish Parliament in November 2021 to ban the manufacture and supply of certain types of single use plastic items which comes into effect on 1 June 2022. Although the other governments in th...
More shocking still is the fact that more than 87,000 people have been waiting more than a year, which is 15,000 more than there were at this time a year ago. In July 2022, Humza Yousaf announced a series of new targets to eradicate the longest waits.
(S6O-03087) The Scottish Government is committed to an on-going programme of land reform based on the principles set out in the “Scottish Land Rights and Responsibilities Statement 2022”. Those principles include bringing about a more diverse pattern of land ownership and tenure, and giving citizens more opportunities to own, lease and have access to land. ...
Transport Scotland’s response also notes “the preferred medium term solution” of improvements to the existing old military road, which was announced in December 2022. I remember visiting that with David Torrance a number of years ago for previous committee consideration of a petition.
I understand that the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee considered the regulations on 20 December 2022 and raised no points on them. The functions of another body, the Council Tax Reduction Review Panel, are also due to be transferred to the First-tier Tribunal, to take effect at the same time.
If there is a need for flexibility in relation to staff, we would much prefer to work with NHS bank staff who are on NHS contracts and NHS terms and conditions.