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.
Animal Health and Welfare (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2 I call the meeting to order and welcome committee members, members of the public and the press to our 11th meeting this year.
Members indicated agreement.Item in Private Item in Private The third item on our agenda is to decide whether to consider our draft report on the financial memorandum to the Planning etc (Scotland) Bill in private at our next meeting.
I do not have fixed views, but the committee has a great deal of knowledge and expertise on related issues, through its consideration of the Protection of Wild Mammals (Scotland) Bill. I am sure that members are aware of many of the arguments.
However, this conflicts with tenants rights under the Housing Legislation, since obviously if the lease is granted then the tenants have rights to remain in the property"under the auspices of the legislation.
The Scottish Executive provides ring fenced funding through Section 27 of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 to local authorities for the delivery of services to offenders.
Work is already under way with Drug and Alcohol Action Teams to obtain more frequent and consistent information.The remit of the majority of residential addiction services in Scotland covers drug and alcohol misuse.
I had wanted to ask whether the petitioners were aware of the Vulnerable Witnesses (Scotland) Bill and what they thought of it, but we cannot take evidence on that.