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8th Meeting, 2022.
Decision on taking business in private, Subordinate legislation, Subordinate legislation, Transfer of operation of ScotRail, Transfer of operation of ScotRail, Work programme.
4th Meeting, 2022.
Joint meeting with Criminal Justice Committee and Health, Social Care and Sport Committee on reducing drug deaths in Scotland and tackling problem drug use.
www.scottishparliament.tv.
It reduced from 18 weeks to an average of five weeks in 2022. That means that people could be doctor shopping to find a doctor who will classify them as eligible, which shows that the safeguards become widened and nullified over time.
As I said in my introductory remarks, we are working closely with the banks through the banking and economy forum, and my colleague Fiona Hyslop is very engaged with some of the business issues.
Valid points have been made about bank accounts. The wider package provides an opportunity to share information on that with young carers and to utilise such things as the Young Scot card, which can be used to help open bank accounts.
We have a very successful pensions industry in Scotland, but it is selling almost entirely into the UK market, so we do not need passporting for it and we do not expect the loss of passporting to have a major impact on pensions concerns. On the banking side, remaining in Scotland we have essentially retail and commercial banks that also work mainly within a single-nation context so—again—they do not need the passport, whereas the big investment banks and the major corporate banks that lend at the top level require those international passports.
Agricultural Support Schemes (Argyll and Bute) To ask the Scottish Government what its latest assessment is of the potential impacts of the United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020 and the Subsidy Control Act 2022 on future agricultural support schemes in areas such as Argyll and Bute.