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Motion agreed to, That the Parliament agrees that the UK Withdrawal from the European Union (Continuity) (Scotland) Bill be passed. The motion is agreed to, and therefore the UK Withdrawal from the European Union (Continuity) (Scotland) Bill is passed.
Part 5: Appointees
Under the Bill, an individual appointed to manage a person's Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) benefits would also manage their Social Security Scotland benefits until Social Security Scotland completes its own checks (section 14).
Following the evidence session on 9 May 2023, the Minister moved motions:
S6M-08337— That the Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee recommends that the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland General Regulatory Chamber and Upper Tribunal for Scotland (Composition and Rules of Procedure) (Miscellaneous Amendment) Regulations 2023 [draft] be approved, and
S6M-08338—That the Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee recommends that the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland (Allocation of Functions to the General Regulatory Chamber) Regulations 2023 [draft] be approved.
While some policy issues are ‘topical’ through the short time period of a committee’s scrutiny of a Bill etc, other issues might feature longer term, perhaps across all of Session 6.
Let us spell out exactly what will happen under the Government’s newly passed Management of Offenders (Scotland) Bill, about which the First Minister talked.