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SPICe briefings
Date published:
15 January 2020
UK Direct Payments to Farmers (Legislative Continuity) Bill 2020 - Clause 3
This could include altering Acts of Parliament where appropriate and sub-delegating the power to a public authority where they are best placed to deal with the deficiencies"2UK Government. (2020, January 9).
Committee reports
Date published:
1 December 2019
Pre-budget scrutiny of the Scottish Government's draft budget 2020/21: justice and policing - Purposeful activity
In HLS's view, "this further emphasises the pressure that SPS are under, and their inability to provide the services which can best support prisoners during their sentences".1Howard League Scotland. (2019).
Committee reports
Date published:
1 December 2019
Pre-budget scrutiny of the Scottish Government's draft budget 2020/21: justice and policing - Long-term and preventative spend
However, that does not mean that we cannot consider whether funding is being used in the best possible way, whether the frameworks are appropriate and whether we can increase investment—and, if so, how we should target it. 6Justice Committee. (2019, October 8).
Committee reports
Date published:
6 November 2019
Pre-budget scrutiny 2020-21 - Risk
Funds are clawed back where the conditions of a grant are breached; however SE said:
It is not usually in the best interests of the Scottish economy for SE to force a company into administration to recover grant funding.viWritten evidence
STUC acknowledged the role of RSA and other grants in securing strategic assets in Scotland’s economy.
Committee reports
Date published:
4 October 2019
Report on Funding of European Union Structural Fund priorities in Scotland, post-Brexit - Audit
The YPC stated that “continual changes to the interpretation of regulations is proving to be the biggest challenge” and questioned whether compliance provided the best value for public funds, stating “it seems incongruous to spend such a large portion of disbursed funds on protecting the public.”1The Young People's Consortium. (2019, April 25).
Committee reports
Date published:
16 September 2019
Subject choices in schools - Overall conclusions
It should be acknowledged that ‘empowerment’ during a period of teacher shortage in some areas and subjects can in practice mean that schools are required to take decisions to manage shortages, and this can impact on a school’s ability to provide the range of subjects and curricular models best suited to their communities. Strategic oversight and support fr...
Committee reports
Date published:
2 July 2019
Under Construction: Building the future of the sector in Scotland - Industry leadership and policy landscape
The most significant outcome from the previous 5 years was the establishment of the innovation centre, although the industry leadership group cited a number of other areas where they had been "extremely active in providing industry views on the best way forward."iiiEEFW Committee. Official Report, 2 April 2019, col 5
Construction Scotland's new Scottish Con...
Committee reports
Date published:
21 June 2019
Presumption Against Short Periods of Imprisonment (Scotland) Order 2019 - Prison population
HLS cites research conducted by the Scottish Government which—
...showed that the PASS set at 3 months did not have a marked impact on sentencing decisions: many Sheriffs saw it as at best a ‘background factor’ in their decisions, and at worst irrelevant, or a demonstration of lack of trust in them.
Committee reports
Date published:
24 January 2019
Stage 1 Report on the Vulnerable Witnesses (Criminal Evidence) (Scotland) Bill - Overview of the Bill
Section 1 states that an exception is justified where:
pre-recording all of the child’s evidence would give rise to a significant risk of prejudice to the fairness of the trial or the interests of justice, and that risk significantly outweighs any risk of prejudice to the interests of the child if the child witness were to give evidence at the trial
a child witness aged 12 or more wishes to give evidence at the trial and it would be in the child's best...
Committee reports
Date published:
27 November 2018
Salmon farming in Scotland - Financing of regulation
He said—
A lower fee is one example of how we could incentivise innovative suggestions and models for best practice and the environment or the trialling of new methods and technologies.
