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However, it should still be possible for parliamentarians to gain an understanding of the extent to which a budget line has made a positive contribution to an outcome. After all, budgets buy inputs which should lead to measurable outputs.
Farm animal welfare regulations form an important part of the regulations which apply to agriculture, and are key to the public's confidence in the food they buy and eat.
Key legislation includes:
The Animal Health and Welfare (Scotland) Act 2006, which provides for the welfare of all 'protected animals', that is a commonly domesticated animal, 'under the c...
Gave tenants a pre-emptive right to buy their farm. To exercise this right, the tenant must have registered their interest, and they then have first option if the landlord decides to sell.
The foundations for such a framework must be built on good governance, policy expertise, cross-party buy-in (as has been the case for climate change), a whole systems approach, and long-term ownership.
Since March, many people have been working locally and from home, travelling less, buying locally and supporting local producers, shops and suppliers and using local services.
The Minister "put on record that the Government would be open to looking at the suggestion" of an aggravation relating to age-restricted goods and services, which would "send a message about the kind of criminality that takes place when retail workers check age in order to ensure that they sell products only to people who are entitled to buy them."ixEEFW Co...
They referred to figures which showed that 41.8 per cent of young people do not feel comfortable buying sanitary products.Local Government and Communities Committee Official Report 18 December 2019 Col 34
Hey Girls highlighted the need for education to tackle the stigma around menstruation to enable women to talk about periods and access products without sh...
Patients should not be expected to rely on taking supplies into hospital with them or have to buy supplies from hospital shops.
Question S5W-17737. (2018, July 17).
The implication of higher inflation is that it reduces the real terms value of a given level of cash spending - costs go up meaning the same level of spending buys less. It also means that the costs of certain Government priorities, for example protecting the SPA budget in real terms, becomes more expensive.
Committee reports
Date published:
1 September 2017
The general response is, “We’ve got to wait until somebody is off for three weeks before we can buy in cover.”
Education and Skills Committee 10 May 2017, Karen Vaughan, contrib. 325, http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/report.aspx?