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Committee reports
Date published:
8 June 2018
Equalities and Human Rights Committee Annual Report 2017-18 - Gypsy/Travellers in Scotland
As a result of our work, the Cabinet Secretary for Communities, Social Security and Equality, Angela Constance MSP, acknowledged that despite Scottish Government support for equalities and diversity across a range of groups in Scottish life, public policy efforts to date to address specific discriminations faced by Gypsy/Travellers in Scotland had not been ...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
10 May 2018
Guide to the new Scottish budget process - The context for a new budget process
The Convener of the Committee, Bruce Crawford MSP said of the new process that:
It will require significant collaboration between the Government, the Parliament and Scotland’s public bodies to deliver such an ambitious set of recommendations, but perhaps the biggest challenge that we as politicians face will be cultural.
Committee reports
Date published:
11 December 2017
Stage 1 Report on the Social Security (Scotland) Bill - Scottish Government Approach
In September the Minister for Social Security, Jeane Freeman MSP, made a statement in Parliament on the establishment of the social security agency.i https://beta.gov.scot/publications/delivering-social-security-for-scotlands-people-ministerial-statement/
She confirmed that the Scottish Social Security Agency will be headquartered in Dundee, with a second m...
Committee reports
Date published:
10 December 2017
Looking Ahead to the Scottish Government's Draft Budget 2018-19: Making the Most of Equalities and Human Rights Levers - Annex A - Minutes of Meeting
Draft Budget Scrutiny 2018-19 (in private): The Committee considered the evidence received and agreed to write to the Minister for Further Education, Higher Education and Science, Shirley-Anne Somerville MSP. The Committee also noted the pending publication by the Scottish Government of the Review of Student Support.
Committee reports
Date published:
17 November 2017
Legislative Consent Memorandum on the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill - Restrictions on the Scottish Ministers’ powers
I would hesitate to object to that on the basis that they can do it and we cannot, because of the potential consequence of everyone being able to modify retained EU law.”iDelegated Powers and Law Reform Committee , Official Report, 26 September, col. 7.
Michael Russell MSP, however, argued that the Scottish Ministers should not have these restrictions impos...
Committee reports
Date published:
17 November 2017
Legislative Consent Memorandum on the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill - Made affirmative procedure
The Committee asked Michael Russell MSP whether the Scottish Ministers would be seeking this procedure.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
25 September 2017
Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications (Repeal) (Scotland) Bill - Background to the 2012 Act
For example, in 2011, the former Celtic FC manager, Neil Lennon, former MSP Trish Godman and the late Paul McBride QC were the intended recipients of what were described by the police as 'viable parcel bombs'.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
25 September 2017
Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications (Repeal) (Scotland) Bill - The Original Bill
Retrieved from <a href="http://www.lawscot.org.uk/news/press-releases/2011/june/news_20110617" target="_blank">http://www.lawscot.org.uk/news/press-releases/2011/june/news_20110617</a> [accessed 17 June 2011]
The then Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, the Right Reverend David Arnott, met with the then Minister for Community Safety and Legal Affairs, Roseanna Cunningham MSP...
Committee reports
Date published:
21 September 2017
Stage 1 Report on the Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Bill - Introduction
Introduction
The Domestic Abuse (Scotland) BilliBill and accompanying documents available at: http://www.parliament.scot/parliamentarybusiness/Bills/103883.aspx was introduced into the Parliament on 17 March 2017 by Michael Matheson MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Justice. The aims of the Bill are (a) to create a new offence of engaging in an abusive course of ...
Committee reports
Date published:
10 September 2017
Post-legislative scrutiny of the High Hedges (Scotland) Act 2013 - Means tested and cost recovery
r=10944&c=1999654Mark McDonald MSP told us that nothing in the Act precludes local authorities from introducing different schemes for the payment of fees—
Nothing in the act prevents or precludes local authorities from introducing a scheme for the type of individuals to whom Mr Gibson refers—people on low incomes or people who are retired and do not hav...
