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SPICe briefings
Date published:
21 April 2020
UK-EU Future Relationship Negotiations: Fisheries - Executive Summary
This includes obligations to fish sustainably using the best available science and to cooperate on the management of fish stocks that migrate across international boundaries.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
21 April 2020
UK-EU Future Relationship Negotiations: Fisheries - 4.2 The UK Negotiating priorities
Specifically the UK negotiating priorities sets out the following aims:
Annual negotiations on access to the parties’ exclusive economic zones and fishing opportunities (total allowable catch and shares); with fishing opportunities based on the principle of zonal attachment, negotiated annually based on the best available science for shared stocks provide...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
28 November 2019
The Animals and Wildlife (Penalties, Protections and Powers) (Scotland) Bill - What is not in the Bill
On 2 October 2019, the Minister for Rural Affairs and Natural Environment, Mairi Gougeon MSP wrote to the ECCLR Committee to set out the Government's approach to the Bill and provide details of issues being pursued via other means:
To make the best use of valuable Parliamentary time, the Bill is tightly focused on important improvements to penalties and pow...
Committee reports
Date published:
26 November 2019
Secure care and prison places for children and young people in Scotland - Conclusions
Despite this, only 36% of children within secure care had received support from the NHS's Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) and only 4% from the Forensic CAMHS in the year prior to admission
The Committee is of the view that whenever our judicial system decides to take away a child's or young person's liberty by placing them in secure care or imprisoning them in prison then it is incumbent that they are provided with the best...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
28 October 2019
The European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill - Implications for Scotland - Legislative Consent for the Withdrawal Agreement Bill
Retrieved from https://www.parliament.scot/S5_Environment/Meeting%20Papers/SPLCM-S05-28.pdf [accessed 23 October 2019]Setting out its reasons for refusing consent, the Scottish Government highlighted that it continues to believe that remaining in the EU would be best for Scotland and the UK as a whole and that:
The changes to the revised Withdrawal Agreemen...
Committee reports
Date published:
18 July 2019
Post-legislative Scrutiny: Control of Dogs (Scotland) Act 2010 - Dogs on leads at all times
The use of by-laws in this way is currently best practice. However, the Committee considers that it should become standard practice.
Committee reports
Date published:
4 July 2019
Scottish National Investment Bank Stage 1 Report - Demand
Substantial demand stimulation activities” were also necessary alongside the additional “investment capability” of SNIB.viiSIB written submission
The BBB highlighted its new Demand Development Unit (DDU), “created specifically to develop the Bank’s positioning and relationship with smaller businesses across the UK” and help it deliver against the following objectives—
Encouraging and enabling SMEs to seek the finance best...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
16 April 2019
The expansion of early learning and childcare - Scottish Government aims and objectives for the expansion of early learning and childcare
The 2018-19 Programme for Government stated:
This [the ELC expansion] is a cornerstone in giving every child the best start in life, closing the attainment gap and reaching our economic potential as a nation.
Committee reports
Date published:
20 February 2019
Business Support - Original remit and policy drift
Hugh Lightbody, from the Business Gateway National Unit, said:
We agree with the review's findings, but can understand why businesses are left confused when, even among the public sector agencies, there is competing voices.iiiEEFW Committee, Official Report, 18 December 2018, col 3-4
Matt Lancashire of SCDI told us that there should not be an isolated approach between the agencies and Business Gateway:
...there should be an alignment between what the agencies are doing and what Business Gateway is doing in order to provide the best...
Committee reports
Date published:
24 January 2019
Stage 1 Report on the Vulnerable Witnesses (Criminal Evidence) (Scotland) Bill - A rule requiring the pre-recording of evidence
The Policy Memorandum highlights the potential for child witnesses to be “re-traumatised through their participation in the criminal justice process”, and that giving evidence in court long after events have taken place does not support witnesses to give their “best evidence”.1Scottish Government. (2018, June).
