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Committee Members have further explored this implementation gap as part of the Committee’s Stage 1 scrutiny of the National Care Service (Scotland) Bill. 9. The Committee is aware that numerous policy and legislative changes have taken place since the Act came into force, which may have impacted on the implementation of SDS, such as the Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Scotland) Act 2014.
—Graeme Dey Motion agreed to.Planning (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3 (Day 1) Planning (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3 (Day 1) The next item of business is stage 3 proceedings on the Planning (Scotland) Bill.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
16 January 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to legislate to end unlimited recovery of hydrocarbons. Oil and gas exploration and production, including licensing, remains reserved to the UK Government.
We have heard your answers to our questions, and you cannot be accountable for all that, but we need to make serious progress in Scotland on meeting our obligations under the European convention on human rights.
Provisions which relate to Scotland requiring an LCM 7. The Bill contains provisions that apply to Scotland and the UK Government has requested legislative consent in relation to Clauses 1 to 4.
Were legislative consent not given and the Bill amended to exclude Scotland, Scotland could miss out on a substantial number of opportunities such as potential for Great British Energy involvement or investment in a range of clean energy sectors.
At the COVID-19 Recovery Committee's meeting on 28 October 2021, the Minister for Transport, Graeme Dey moved Motion S6M-01315 in the name of Michael Matheson―That the COVID-19 Recovery Committee recommends that the Health Protection (Coronavirus) (International Travel and Operator Liability) (Scotland) Regulations 2021 (SSI 2021/322) be approved.