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Against a backdrop of high demand due to similar schemes run by the other Devolved Administrations, supply was affected for two main reasons:
the impact of Covid on the ability of manufacturers to produce equipment (electronic components, steel shortages)
additional delays caused by EU Exit import delays for items manufactured internationally
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The Committee welcomes the Scottish Fiscal Commission’s preparatory work to start producing a fiscal sustainability report each session, which would look ahead to the next 30 to 50 years and identify “particular pressures on spending or revenue arising from, for example, population growth”.10Scottish Fiscal Commission, letter to Committee on Fiscal Sustaina...
Factors such as vaccine uptake and vaccine waning, levels of compliance and the risk of new variants can all combine in different ways to produce very different outcomes requiring different responses.
Recommendation 22 (Para 215): Equalities and Human Rights Committee - Produce guidance to embed and support human rights in the work of the Parliament and its Committees.
The Committee sought further information from the Minister on the guidance to be produced to support the draft Regulations and the timescales for that guidance; the costs and burdens on local authorities and the rehoming of rescue animals from abroad.
The concerns outlined for some, were around the 'type' of timber and what was produced. Some respondents argued that to ensure carbon stayed locked up for longer, timber for construction was the better option as opposed to biofuel.
Timber and other wood products can provide a substitute for materials produced with high fossil fuel inputs, and woodfuel presents an alternative to fossil fuels for energy 10Broadmeadow, M., & Ray, D. (2005).
The DWP told us that the methodology used to produce take-up statistics is complex, drawing on DWP and local authority administrative data, and data from the family resource survey.
For example, Eleanor Kay of Scottish Land and Estates commented:
It is important to consider the primary markets for our produce. I do not have the exact figures to hand, but I know that a lot of our beef and sheep meat ends up in England.
Committee reports
Date published:
20 February 2020
Kate Hudson from the SPS said—
The success criteria were a co-produced package enabling elements of organisational reform that were targeted specifically at prison officers.