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Official Report
Meeting date:
4 October 2011
Scotland Bill Committee 04 October 2011
We have a one-off opportunity to get a properly engaged debate and the right process.
Official Report
Meeting date:
4 October 2011
Public Petitions Committee 04 October 2011
However, that is more of a procedural point and does not cut across members’ suggestions. I am interested in getting closer to the actual consumers of this activity—in other words, the boys in question and their parents—and hearing their views.
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25 March 2026
Future Farming Investment Scheme 23 March
Many of the efficiency-related investments proposed by applicants can also contribute indirectly to environmental and climate objectives through improved resource use, reduced input losses and more efficient management of agricultural activities. Application behaviour was also influenced by the availability of grant support of up to 100% of eligible investm...
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14 May 2024
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P ART 4 R ESPONSIBLE DEVELOPERS SCHEME 20 Power to establish scheme (1) The Scottish Ministers may by regulations establish a responsible developers scheme 40 (or more than one). 15 Housing (Cladding Remediation) (Scotland) Bill Part 4—Responsible developers scheme (2) The purpose of a responsible developers scheme is to secure that persons in the building industry address, or contribute towards the costs of addressing, risks to human life created or exacerbated (directly or indirectly) by the external wall cladding systems of buildings that are wholly or partly residential. 5 (3) Regulations establishing a scheme are to include provision about— (a) who is eligible to be a member of a responsible developers scheme, (b) the conditions of becoming, and remaining, a member, (c) loss of membership, (d) the consequences of a person who is eligible to be a member not being a member. 10 (4) Without prejudice to the generality of any other provision in this Part, regulations under 1 subsection (1) may in particular— (a) make provision about who is to operate a scheme (including by allowing a person to be appointed for that purpose in accordance with the regulations), (b) confer functions on persons, 15 (c) require members, or persons seeking to become members, of a scheme to pay fees, (d) make provision about the processes to be followed by the person operating a scheme (including in relation to decisions by the person about another person’s membership of the scheme), 20 (e) make different provision for different developers with regard to the size or other characteristics of a developer, (f) make provision— (i) requiring the Scottish Ministers to use their best endeavours to secure the outcome mentioned in subsection (4A), and 25 (ii) describing circumstances in which such a requirement is to be regarded as having been complied with. (4A) The outcome is that, in relation to any single-building assessment, additional work assessment or work identified in a single-building assessment report or an additional work assessment report as being needed to eliminate or mitigate risks to human life that 30 are (directly or indirectly) created or exacerbated by a building’s external wall cladding system arranged by a member of the scheme, the member uses the member’s best endeavours to ensure that the owners and occupiers of the building are— (a) informed that the assessment or work is to be carried out, and (b) given a reasonable opportunity to put questions about the assessment or work to 35 a person appointed for that purpose by the member. (5) Before making regulations under subsection (1), the Scottish Ministers must consult— (a) such persons as appear to the Scottish Ministers to represent the interests of persons carrying on, for business purposes, activities...
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17 May 2023
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.”, (b) in subsection (3), for “such representations” substitute “representations under subsection (2)”. (4) After section 17A insert— “17B Review by Parole Board of decision to recommend or direct release on 10 licence 1 (1) This section applies where— (a) the Parole Board recommends or directs that a prisoner be released on licence under this Part, and (b) the prisoner has not yet been released on licence as a result of the 15 Board’s recommendation or, as the case may be, direction. (2) The Parole Board may, if subsection (3) applies, review its recommendation or, as the case may be, direction that the prisoner be released on licence. (3) This subsection applies if information comes to the Parole Board’s attention— (a) that was not available to the Board when it made its recommendation 20 or, as the case may be, direction, and (b) which, in the opinion of Board, has a significant bearing on the prisoner’s suitability for release on licence.”. 8 Power to release early (1) The 1993 Act is amended as follows. 25 (2) After section 3B (review of decisions as to determinate sentences) insert— “3C Power to release early (1) The Scottish Ministers may by regulations provide that a person of a description specified in the regulations is to be released from prison early on a date that is— 30 (a) either— (i) specified in the regulations, or (ii) determined in accordance with provision made in the regulations, and (b) not later than the regulations’ latest release date. 35 (2) The Scottish Ministers may make regulations under this section only if they are satisfied that making the regulations is necessary and proportionate, in response to the effects an emergency situation is having or is likely to have on a prison or prisons generally, for the purpose of protecting— (a) the security and good order of any prison to which the regulations would 40 relate, or 12 Bail and Release from Custody (Scotland) Bill Part 2—release from custody (b) the health, safety or welfare of prisoners, or those working, in any such prison. (3) Regulations under this section may— (a) provide that long term prisoners released by virtue of those regulations 5 are released on licence, (b) specify standard conditions which must be included in any licence granted by virtue of paragraph (a). (3A) A person is not to be released from prison by virtue of regulations under this section more than 180 days earlier than the Scottish Ministers would otherwise 10 be required to release the person. 1 (4) A person is not to be released from prison by virtue of regulations under this section if— (a) the person falls within subsection (5), or (b) the governor of the prison within which the person is detained considers 15 that the person would, if released, pose an immediate risk of harm— (i) to an identified person, or (ii) to an identified group of people. (5) A person falls within this subsection if the person is— (a) a life prisoner, 20 (b) an untried prisoner, (c) a terrorist prisoner within the meaning of section 1AB, (d) due to serve a terrorism sentence within the meaning of section 1B but, by virtue of that section, is not yet serving it, (e) liable to removal from the United Kingdom for the purposes of section 25 9, (f) subject to a supervised release order under section 209 of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995, (g) serving a sentence passed under section 210A of that Act (extended sentences for sex, violent and terrorist offenders), 30 (h) the subject of proceedings under the Extradition Act 2003, (i) subject to the notification requirements of Part 2 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003, (j) serving a sentence of imprisonment or detention for an offence— (i) that is aggravated as described in section 1(1)(a) of the Abusive 35 Behaviour and Sexual Harm (Scotland) Act 2016, (ii) under section 1(1) of the Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act 2018, (iii) under section 7(1) or 17(1) of the Domestic Abuse (Protection) (Scotland) Act 2021, (k) a long-term prisoner, unless that prisoner has been recommended for 40 release by the Parole Board at the date on which the regulations are made. 13 Bail and Release from Custody (Scotland) Bill Part 2—release from custody (6) Regulations under this section may make different provision for different purposes. (7) In this section— “emergency situation” means— 5 (a) the incidence or spread of infection, contamination or the source of contamination which presents or could present significant harm to human health in Scotland (whether from risks originating there or elsewhere), (b) an event or situation which has resulted in any prison (or part of 10 a prison) to which the regulations would relate being unusable, 1 (c) any other event or situation which is reasonably considered by the Scottish Ministers to place at significant risk— (i) the security and good order of a prison or prisons generally, (ii) the health, safety, and welfare of prisoners, or those working, 15 in any such prison, “governor” in relation to a prison, means— (a) the governor appointed for the prison under section 3(1A) of the Prisons (Scotland) Act 1989, or (b) in the case of a contracted out prison, the director appointed for 20 the prison under section 107(1)(a) of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, “latest release date” means a date specified in the regulations in question, which must be a date within the period of 180 days beginning with the day that the regulations are made, 25 “untried prisoner” means a person who, whether or not in prison for any other reason, is in prison— (a) having been committed for examination or trial on a criminal charge, (b) by virtue of remand in custody under the Extradition Act 2003, 30 (c) by virtue of detention under Schedule 2 or 3 of the Immigration Act 1971, or (d) following conviction and awaiting sentence. 3D Parliamentary scrutiny of regulations made under section 3C (1) Regulations under section 3C are subject to the affirmative procedure, unless 35 subsection (2) applies to them. (2) This subsection applies to regulations if the Scottish statutory instrument containing the regulations includes a declaration that the Scottish Ministers are of the opinion that, by reason of urgency, it is necessary to make the regulations without their being subject to the affirmative procedure. 14 Bail and Release from Custody (Scotland) Bill Part 2—release from custody (3) Where subsection (2) applies to regulations— (a) section 30 of the Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 does not apply to the regulations, (b) the Scottish statutory instrument containing the regulations must be laid 5 before the Scottish Parliament as soon as practicable after they are made, 5 (c) the Scottish Ministers must explain why they are of the opinion that, by reason of urgency, it is necessary to make the regulations without their being subject to the affirmative procedure, and (d) the regulations cease to have effect at the end of the period of 28 days 10 beginning with the day on which they are made unless, during that 1 period, the Scottish statutory instrument containing them is approved by resolution of the Parliament. (4) In calculating the period of 28 days mentioned in subsection (3)(d), no account is to be taken of any time during which the Scottish Parliament is— 15 (a) in recess for more than 4 days, or (b) dissolved. (5) Regulations ceasing to have effect by virtue of subsection (3)(d) neither— (a) affects anything done under the regulations before they ceased to have effect, nor 20 (b) prevents new regulations being made under section 3C. 3E Effect of early release from prison or young offenders institution by virtue of regulations (1) A person described in the first column of the table below who is released from custody by virtue of regulations under section 3C is deemed to have been 25 released by virtue of the provision of this Act mentioned in the corresponding entry in the second column. 27 Provision of this Act by Status of person immediately before release virtue of which the person is deemed to have been 30 released 31 A short-term prisoner section 1(1) 32 A long-term prisoner section 1(3) 33 A person serving a term of imprisonment or section 1(1), construed as 34 detention imposed on a basis mentioned in section required by section 5(2) 35 5(1)(a) or (b) (fine defaulters and persons in contempt of court) and who is, for any purpose, to be treated as a short-term prisoner by virtue of that section 39 A person serving a term of imprisonment or section 1(3), construed as 40 40 detention imposed on a basis mentioned in section required by section 5(2) and who is, for any purpose, to be 5(1)(a) or (b) 15 Bail and Release from Custody (Scotland) Bill Part 2—release from custody 27 Status of person immediately before release Provision of this Act by virtue of which the person is deemed to have been released 5 treated as a long-term prisoner by virtue of that section 7 (a) A person detained— section 7(2) (i) under section 208 of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 10 (detention of children convicted on 1 indictment), or (ii) in pursuance of an order under section 7(3) (children detained in solemn proceedings) 15 (2) In this section, “short-term prisoner” and “long-term prisoner” include a person treated, for any purpose, as a short-term prisoner or (as the case may be) a long term prisoner by virtue of section 6(1)(a) or 16(5)(a).”. (3) In section 12 (conditions in licence), after subsection (3) insert— “(3A) Subsection (3)(b) does not apply in relation to a standard condition in a licence 20 granted by virtue of regulations under section 3C(3).”. (4) After that section insert— “12ZA Conditions for persons released on licence under section 3C(3) (1) Standard conditions specified by the Scottish Ministers in regulations under section 3C(3) remain in force (unless they are cancelled) in relation to a 25 released person until the date on which the released person would, but for release by virtue of the regulations, fall to be released under section 1(3). (2) Standard conditions specified by the Scottish Ministers in regulations under section 3C(3) may include a curfew condition complying with section 12AB.”. 9 Duty to engage in release planning 30 (1) The Community Justice (Scotland) Act 2016 (“the 2016 Act”) is amended as follows. (2) After section 34 (innovation, learning and development activity...
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7 March 2023
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Supported by: Miles Briggs*, Brian Whittle*, Richard Lyle*, Bill Kidd*, Finlay Carson*, Kenneth Gibson* *S5M-21659 Emma Harper: World Asthma Day —That the Parliament notes that 5 May 2020 is World Asthma Day; understands that there are 368,000 people in Scotland being treated for the condition, 71,000 of whom are children; notes that the theme of the day is Enough Asthma Deaths; acknowledges that activities have been scaled back to allow people dealing with respiratory issues to concentrate on the impact of COVID-19; congratulates the work of charities such as Asthma UK and British Lung Foundation for the work that they do to inform and advocate for people living with asthma, and encourages everyone to use World Asthma Day to think about the impact of the condition on their friends, families and workmates.
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7 March 2023
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Supported by: Stuart McMillan*, Patrick Harvie*, Bill Kidd* *S5M-17880 Anas Sarwar: Crisis in Sudan—That the Parliament notes the protest held on its grounds on 11 June 2019 by the Sudanese Uprising Supporting Group, a coalition of Sudanese nationals supporting the pro-democracy movement in Sudan; shares its condemnation of the actions of the Transitional Military Council, specifically the Khartoum massacre committed by the Janjaweed militia on 3 June 2019; calls on the UK Government to apply diplomatic pressure on the Transitional Military Council to immediately hand power over to a civilian-led government; further calls on the UK Government representative on the Security Council to push for activating...
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7 March 2023
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Supported by: Richard Lyle*, Andy Wightman* *S5M-16823 Murdo Fraser: Gannochy Trust—That the Parliament congratulates the Gannochy Trust on its plan to work on youth projects over the next three years, following £450,000 of funding being awarded by the trust and another £450,000 from Perth and Kinross Council; notes that this funding will help youth centres in the Perth and Kinross area; considers that the partnership between the two organisations should help provide activities...
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25 October 2022
NCSBillFM_SPICeSummaryOfEvidence_20Oct22
If the third sector is to be considered an active partner in the NCS then this must equally be demonstrated through funding.
Official Report
Meeting date:
5 September 2012
Economy, Energy and Tourism Committee 05 September 2012
I wonder whether there might also be an opportunity. How much does tourist activity by visitors from abroad feed into benefits further down the line with, say, Scottish businesses getting future export business from people who previously came into contact with them?
