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The Scottish Government has stated that the Bill seeks to set a framework that will allow Scottish Ministers to drive forward a circular economy in Scotland.
At our next meeting, in addition to our regular consideration of Scottish statutory instruments, we will consider a draft report on the Contract (Third Party Rights) (Scotland) Bill at stage 1. Meeting closed at 10:08.
Summary
The Community Wealth Building (Scotland) Bill (herein, 'the Bill') aims to ensure that local authorities and other parts of the public sector implement community wealth building across Scotland.
Committee reports
Date published:
21 November 2022
Legislative Consent memorandum: Procurement Bill. Retrieved from <a href="https://www.parliament.scot/bills-and-laws/legislative-consent-memorandums/procurement-bill" target="_blank">https://www.parliament.scot/bills-and-laws/legislative-consent-memorandums/procurement-bill</a>
In its LCM, the Scottish Government notes three areas where legislative consent is engaged—
the regulation of procurement activities by reserved bodies in Scotland;
conferring a concurrently exercisable power on Scottish and UK Ministers to implement new trade agreements; and
cross border procurement.
However, it is still the right thing to do to mitigate that cap and to invest in supporting local authorities through discretionary housing payments to, in effect, remove the cap in Scotland.
The long-term approach to Scotland’s tax base has to be right. This kind of short-term thinking is exactly what we do not want to see, and we should be managing that element of our economy.