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One PRR relates to who has contact with a child on a day-to-day basis.
It is usually best to try to settle any dispute about a child amicably with a child's parents.
The underlying structures and operation of both health and social care have not changed, despite the legislation and the best efforts of integration authorities to commission services that fulfil the principles of integration.
As larger, more complex benefits come onstream and where Scottish Government policy starts to diverge from UK Government policy, effective and regular communication between the incoming Scottish Government and the SFC will be even more important to ensure that forecasts are based on best data.
The Committee suggests that its successor committee/s may wish to consider how best to ensure ongoing and effective scrutiny in these areas during the course of Session 6.
The Memorandum continues that:
More generally, the Scottish Government holds the view that the day to day administration of the public entertainment licensing regime is appropriately administered by licensing authorities who are best placed to take local circumstances into account in the decision making process to ensure that they provide safe and appropria...
Committee reports
Date published:
13 November 2020
Working with wider economic development ecosystem
SE highlighted that ‘Access to Finance’ is a current priority workstream: ensuring current and proposed UK and Scottish Government initiatives, including from partner organisations such as SNIB, are used to best advantage in supporting Scottish businesses.
Committee reports
Date published:
22 September 2020
The Committee notes the Cabinet Secretary’s view that routine monitoring of developments in international law best sits with the government as a whole.
A. Achieving best value in procurement
In the previous chapter of this report, we considered aspects of the Review of Access to New Medicines which said—
"During evidence gathering from stakeholders much was made of the need to take a more sophisticated approach to benefits that includes patient reported outcomes, wider societal benefits such as the abilit...
While the preconditions need to be met in order for the instrument to be within vires, they are matters that the lead committee, with its policy expertise in this area, would be best placed to consider.
The Committee therefore wishes to draw these preconditions to the attention of the lead committee, the Rural Economy and Connectivity Committee, so that it ...
The Committee is satisfied that other alternatives were considered and is content with the Promoter's conclusion that promoting a Private Bill in the Scottish Parliament is the most appropriate and best available method of achieving the Promoter's aims.