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The review will provide me and colleagues from the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities with recommendations by June 2024. It will be undertaken by Kate Still, who will bring her extensive experience to bear on the issue.
That will then give the festival organisations, the council and the Scottish Government the opportunity to work together and consider how the process works with a lower number of applications, ahead of a larger influx in 2024. It is important that exemptions are applied for, because that gives the licensing authority a form of oversight.
In fact, that was overambitious—our report said that we would expect the standards to be implemented by 2024. There was an audit and a report by Public Health Scotland.
That will still give the industry a problem, because England and Wales will not be ready until late 2024, which could give rise to the potential fraud that I alluded to.
To ask the Scottish Government which (a) paragraphs or (b) sections of the Scottish Ferries Services: Ferries Plan (2013-2022) will form the basis of the 2016 to 2024 contract for Clyde and Hebrides Ferry Services.
The subsequent revaluation will therefore take effect from 1 April 2025 with a valuation “tone date” of 1 April 2024. SP Bill 44–PM Session 5 (2019) This document relates to the Non-Domestic Rates (Scotland) Bill (SP Bill 44) as introduced in the Scottish Parliament on 25 March 2019 42.
Mr Burgess, who is sitting next to you, asked for information on a new market garden support scheme in February 2024, which was more than a year and a half ago.
We had just launched the guidance in November 2024. Our preference was to review the guidance, and our view was that the timescales did not meet the Government’s requirement to take on the bill, because we had not yet carried out or started the review, and we needed that granular detail to inform any legislative change.