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The Scottish Government indicated that the new governance arrangements proposed in the Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Bill would provide strong governance arrangements and clear accountability for the fire and rescue service.2Scottish Governmment. (2012).
Engender were also critical of the Scottish Government's Equalities Impact Assessment (EQIA), describing it as not "robust" and adding that—
Studies have shown that EM curfew hours are set in "routine and unimaginative ways" and that "sentencers are slow to grasp that they can and should take account of individuals' circumstances when deciding the length of...
We promoted the call for written evidence on the Committee’s Twitter account. A Facebook post with a featured animation reached 6,700 people, was viewed 1,900 times, and was commented upon 23 times.
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Committee reports
Date published:
26 November 2018
It provides a way to hold the Scottish Government to account against its own stated aims, and to scrutinise whether the underlying policy and measures are joined up.
Housing (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill
The Housing (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill was introduced on 4 September 2017 with the aim of ensuring that the influence that the Scottish Housing Regulator and local authorities can exercise over Registered Social Landlords (RSLs) is compatible with RSLs being reclassified by the Office for National Statistics as private sector bodies in the United Kingdom national accounts...
As part of this process, details of the wider consultation process carried out, and how it has been taken into account to inform any changes must also be provided (Section 2(4) of the Act).
On the other hand (unlike five year prescription), twenty year prescription takes no account of the pursuer's knowledge of the circumstances of the claim in deciding when the clock starts to tick.