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The Gambling Commission's Advisory Board for Safer Gambling highlighted key issues with this model:
Transparency - funding for research, prevention and treatment of gambling harms are not subject to the same accountability and transparency as other public health research or services.
We recommend the Scottish Government expands the EFSBS to include major policies, which it assesses as having no impact on human rights and protected characteristics to enable stakeholder participation and increase accountability.
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We recommend that the Accountant in Bankruptcy raises awareness among creditors of the Debt Arrangement Scheme, as evidence highlighted that some creditors continue to take enforcement action when this should have been stopped.
Summary of proposed approach
The framework documents list the following principles as guiding shared ways of working:
The framework for changing UK FFSH legislation should respect the JMC principles, devolved responsibilities and accountability across the UK.
The four nations should work together to develop evidence based approaches for ensuring protection...
The 2020/21 audit of Scottish Government Consolidated Accounts
The Committee took evidence on this section 22 report from the Auditor General on 27 January 20221Official Report, the Scottish Parliament. (2022, January 27).
meeting=13453</a>the Committee took evidence from the Chief Executive and Convener of the Crofting Commission, followed by evidence from the Portfolio Accountable Officer from the Scottish Government on 16 December 2021.2Official Report, the Scottish Parliament. (2021, December 16).
Equalities, Engagement and Innovation
The Scottish ParliamentThe Committee is committed to ensure all the Committee's work is as inclusive as possible and takes due account of people's lived experience.
The pandemic has prevented us from carrying out face to face engagement in this reporting year.
However, Scottish Ministers may wish to take guidance issued by the Secretary of State under clause 3 of the BSL Bill into account when developing their next National Plan.
He concluded: “It can only be to our advantage to have that scrutiny”
The Cabinet Secretary noted that in relation to regulations made in devolved areas where there is no consent required, concurrent powers in regulations made by the UK Government are subject to the terms of the SI protocol 2 and therefore take account of parliamentary scrutiny.
Where Scott...
“The Scottish Parliament: How the Parliament building shapes the workings of the institution” funded by the ESRC Impact Acceleration Account (ES/T501918/1), University of St.