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SPICe briefings
Date published:
31 July 2020
Children (Scotland) Bill: consideration prior to Stage 3 - Child contact centres (section 9)
This issue had also been raised by Mr Doris in the Stage 1 debate.Amendment 74, in the name of Neil Findlay MSP, would require regulated contact centres to be publicly provided and accountable to Scottish Ministers. Amendment 74 was disagreed to (by division).Scottish Government amendment 30 empowers Scottish Ministers may enter into a contract with a third...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
27 March 2020
Revised UK Agriculture Bill 2020 - Second Reading
Scottish MPs raised that they felt the Bill was straying into areas of devolved competence;
the need for new measures of success for agriculture beyond yield;
the lack of provision for farm advice in the Bill, to support farmers to make the transition;
a lack of vision to protect rural communities;
a lack of provision to protect agricultural workers;
Environment:
the need to maintain food production abroad so not to risk offshoring the UK's environmental impact;
disappointment that the Bill is not clearer about financially rewarding a transition to 'agroecology', or a whole-farm approach to agriculture with the environment at its core;
the need to enshrine baseline environmental standards that all farmers should adhere to, whether in receipt of funding or not, and the lack of provision for this in the Bill;
that the Bill is not ambitious enough about climate change or the environment by banning the most damaging practices and taking on board best-practice recommendations from e.g. the Environmental Audit Committee's Soil Health Inquiry;
while there are powers conferred on the Secretary of State, MPs raised the the overall lack of duties on the Secretary of State to e.g. safeguard the environment;
lack of incorporation of the UK Committee on Climate Change's advice for reaching net-zero;
Food:
lack of consideration in the Bill for the whole food system, including:
food prices and food poverty;
healthy food
food sustainability
that only reporting on food security every five years is inadequate; many MPs felt that the UK Government should report every year to begin with;
Funding:
the need to consider currency fluctuation, and whether support to farmers will take this into account...
Committee reports
Date published:
18 February 2020
Budget (Scotland) (No.4) Bill: Stage 1
Committee Consideration
The Scottish Government states in its DPM that the power in section 7 of the Bill is necessary to permit the Scottish Ministers to amend the Bill to take account of inevitable changes to the Government’s spending plans during the financial year to which the Bill applies.
Committee reports
Date published:
5 February 2020
Proposal for a Committee Bill - Scottish Parliament (Assistance for Political Parties) Bill - Background
It also applies to registered political parties in a coalition Government, provided MSPs from that party account for no more than a fifth of the Ministers of the Government.
Committee reports
Date published:
26 November 2019
Work of the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee in 2018-19 - How many instruments were considered this year?
Mr Dey added:
Where prioritisation becomes necessary, our key consideration is the public interest, but we would also take account of the impact on the committees, which have work programmes that often have to dovetail quite closely.
Committee reports
Date published:
31 October 2019
Stage 1 report on the Referendums (Scotland) Bill - Financial Memorandum (FM)
Consequently, this needs to be taken into account in future estimates. Our Adviser also points out that international best practice is to also report or estimate spending/costs per elector, which enables a better comparison across electoral events and across local authorities.1https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0192512118824787.
Committee reports
Date published:
4 October 2019
Stage 1 Report on the Non-Domestic Rates (Scotland) Bill - Debt recovery
Some evidence noted that cash flow could be a concern for business,iiie.g. Association of Accounting Technicians and there were suggestions of lengthening the 7 and 14 day deadlines set out in section 13 to around a month.
Committee reports
Date published:
18 September 2019
Debt Arrangement Scheme (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2019 - Debt Arrangement Scheme (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2019
Since its inception DAS has been administered by the Accountant in Bankruptcy (AiB). The Regulations provide for the procedure and forms in respect of a repayment arrangement under the scheme, which is described as a debt payment programme (“DPP”).
SPICe briefings
Date published:
30 August 2019
The Disclosure (Scotland) Bill - What is disclosure?
A fundamental aim of the disclosure regime is to balance protecting the public with ensuring that the rights of individuals to a private life are respected and that they have ability to move on from offending behaviour. The system has developed taking account of findings of public inquiries into tragic and high-profile cases, such as the Cullen Inquiry int...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
26 July 2019
Anatomy of modern Free Trade Agreements - Trade in Services
CETA also removed certain nationality requirements for the exercise of professions such as lawyers, accountants, architects and engineers practising in Canada.
