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Committee reports
Date published:
22 March 2021
Post-legislative scrutiny: The Lobbying (Scotland) Act 2016 - Introduction
The stated aims of the Act include increasing understanding about lobbying activity taking place in Scotland and improved public accountability and scrutiny. The Lobbying Act is one of a series of mechanisms designed to improve the transparency and openness of Government decision making, policy development and the spending of public funds, as well as parlia...
Committee reports
Date published:
19 March 2021
Legacy Report - Review of the Audit Scotland Board and the SCPA
The SCPA also agreed to investigate what the process would be should it consider it necessary to appoint more than three non-executive members of the Board (as currently permitted under the Public Finance and Accountability (Scotland) Act 2000). In January 2020, the Commission considered an approach paper setting out a proposed process and agreed to include...
Committee reports
Date published:
2 March 2021
Report on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on equalities and human rights - Equality impact assessments
Engender believes this to be an unnecessary reduction in accountability, particularly given public bodies were about to publish their suite of reports when the nation went into lockdown.
Committee reports
Date published:
8 November 2020
Green Recovery Inquiry - Report - Financing the green recovery
The need for models which recognise there is a degree of risk from innovation, address market failure, effectively share best practice and take account of non-economic costs and benefits were identified.
Committee reports
Date published:
15 September 2020
Report on the draft Rent Arrears Pre-Action Requirements (Coronavirus) (Scotland) Regulations 2020 - Introduction
Compliance with these pre-action requirements will be taken into account by the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland (Housing and Property Chamber) when deciding whether it is reasonable to grant a repossession order in such cases.
Committee reports
Date published:
7 September 2020
Abertay University and Robert Gordon University (Change of Names) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Order 2020 [draft] - Education and Skills Committee consideration
With the two new names now in force, the purpose of this affirmative instrument is to update references to those institutions in the Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 2005, the Protection of Charities Assets (Exemption) (Scotland) Order 2006 and the Public Finance and Accountability (Scotland) Act 2000 (Economy, efficiency and effectiveness examin...
Committee reports
Date published:
15 June 2020
Subordinate legislation: The Budget (Scotland) Act 2020 Amendment Regulations 2020 - Introduction
Introduction
At its meeting on 12 June 2020, the Committee took evidence from the Cabinet Secretary for Finance on —
The Budget (Scotland) Act 2020 Amendment Regulations 2020
The Regulations were laid on 27 May 2020 and amend the Budget Scotland Act 2020, which authorised the Scottish Government’s spending plans for the current financial year, to take account of the COVID-19 related budget measures announced by Scottish Ministers.
Committee reports
Date published:
5 June 2020
Annual Report of the Rural Economy and Connectivity Committee for 2019/20 - Petitions
As part of its consideration of the Transport (Scotland) Bill, the Committee agreed to take into account petition PE1616 by John S Shaw, calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to make it an offence to park in front of a dropped kerb.
in its Stage 1 report, the Committee agreed to recommend that such an offence should be introduce...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
27 April 2020
Issue 5: EU-UK future relationship negotiations - Scottish Government call for extension
The UK Government is pressing ahead with negotiations without properly involving the Scottish Government, or taking account of our views.
The Scottish economy cannot afford the double hit of COVID-19 and the growing likelihood of a ‘no deal’, or at best a hard Brexit deal, in less than nine months’ time.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
15 January 2020
UK Direct Payments to Farmers (Legislative Continuity) Bill 2020 - Clause 5
Clause 5
Clause 5 amends the Direct Payments Regulation to allow the Secretary of State to increase the UK Direct Payments ceilings for the scheme year 2020. This is to take account of the Intra-UK Allocations Review (the Bew Review) published on 6 September 2019.
