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Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to amend the current guidance on flying recreational drones on national nature reserves (NNRs) to so that: use is prohibited without a permit permits include a flight time, date and agreed flight path operation is in accordance with the drone code advice on the legal status of the wildli...
In addition, the Review discussed the potential for the development of a Code of Practice, building on the existing Scottish Mounted Foxhound Packs Fox Control Protocol, to increase data collection and reporting around, in particular, mounted fox hunts.
This Commissioner, it was recommended, should have sufficient flexibility to embrace future technologies and relevant codes of practice; and the potential to develop a statutory Code of Practice for the use of biometric data in Scotland.
The real-time, pay-as-you-earn tax data for 2023-24 suggests that growth in PAYE income tax receipts in Scotland outperformed that in the rest of the UK, with tax receipt per head figures growing at the fastest rate since data has been available.
From 1 April 2021, we increased the maximum discount available from the water charges reduction scheme—which is available to customers in receipt of full council tax reduction—to 35 per cent, up from 25 per cent.
Education Scotland (ES) also offers a range of support to schools in encouraging pupils to code. For example, they offer one hour “Curriculum live” lessons which teachers can download and deliver using a smartboard, including lessons on coding.
Dr Strain spoke of research he has been involved in which has access to 25 million patient primary care records in England. The research looked at the coding in patient records across different areas and found as Long COVID services were set up in a particular area, the number of patient records with Long COVID coding in that area increased.
The Committee agreed that it was content with the revisions to the power in Section 9 which supplements the procedure that applies in relation to bringing the code into effect.
The Committee also agreed that it was content with the new power in Section 23A to change or clarify the meaning of biometric data.