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Citizens Advice Scotland added that their officers receive many repeat clients seeking support in setting up an account to apply for Universal Credit, to maintain a journal on the online portal and to provide ongoing support with accessing the appropriate parts of the online benefits system.
I think this is in part because of the legislative history, but also because there is a difference in treatment between MSPs (accountable to the Parliament) and councillors (accountable to the Standards Commission).
. • Wider public sector reform – including a discussion of the public sector reform landscape and the extent to which local councillors understand their roles and relevant structures; how Community Planning Partnerships are working in practice; and human rights budgeting. 1 CG/S6/25/2/2 • Assurance and accountability framework – including how this will relate to the National Performance Framework and the scrutiny of cross-cutting issues; and how the assurance and accountability framework could inform the scrutiny of the implementation of policy priorities and identifying implementation gaps, including through post-legislative scrutiny. • COSLA’s engagement with and experience of giving evidence to parliamentary committee inquiries – including the challenge of capturing representative evidence when practice and experience can vary across all local authorities; the value of written evidence in helping to identify relevant witnesses for oral evidence; whether committees can accommodate more than one COSLA representative at an evidence session (such as an elected representative and a supporting official); COSLA’s capacity to respond to all call for views; sharing reflections on the breadth of topics that COSLA could contribute evidence on; and opportunities for COSLA to help scope committee inquiries before they are launched. • The working relationships between Members, their local authorities and COSLA – including opportunities to share more information about the links between policy issues and delivery at a local and national level. • Members’ knowledge and experience of local government and opportunities for continuous professional development in Session 7 – including opportunities for COSLA to attend CPD sessions being run for new Members early in the new session, as well as committee business planning events and scoping evidence sessions.
Cross-Par ty Group on the Wood Panel Industry Monday 11 March 2024, 11:00am - Via Zoom Minute Present MSPs Fergus Ewing MSP Stephen Kerr MSP Maurice Golden MSP Sharon Dowey MSP Emma Harper MSP Non-MSP Group Members Alastair Kerr - Director General, Wood Panel Industries Federation (WPIF) Steve Roebuck - Director EHS, West Fraser (Formally Norbord) John Patterson - Public Affairs Manager, EGGER UK Mark Cummings - Managing Director, Invicta Public Affairs Catherine Wales - Account...
Cross-Par ty Group on the Wood Panel Industry Monday 11 March 2024, 11:00am - Via Zoom Minute Present MSPs Fergus Ewing MSP Stephen Kerr MSP Maurice Golden MSP Sharon Dowey MSP Emma Harper MSP Non-MSP Group Members Alastair Kerr - Director General, Wood Panel Industries Federation (WPIF) Steve Roebuck - Director EHS, West Fraser (Formally Norbord) John Patterson - Public Affairs Manager, EGGER UK Mark Cummings - Managing Director, Invicta Public Affairs Catherine Wales - Account...
As you have noted, any local authority with an LEZ in place can already use residual revenue received from penalty charges in respect of an LEZ scheme, once expenditure costs have been accounted for to facilitate the achievement of the LEZ’s mandatory and discretionary objectives.
Why is carbon sequestration of land-based activities not taken into account in the carbon audit? 12. Why does the government see it as necessary and proportionate that soil analysis must be conducted on individual region 1 land parcels extending to 1 hectare or less?
At that point it was too late for us to produce a full costing accounting for behavioural responses. Our forecast and spending tables do not include the cost of this policy.
Independently from this, ScotRail, in public ownership, is in the early stages of trialling an Account Based Travel scheme (or Pay As You Go) with a closed group, with the intention of launching that wider, if it proves successful.
Minister for Higher and Further Education; and Minister for Veterans a b c d Gr a e m e De y MSP T: 0 3 0 0 2 4 4 4 0 0 0 E: s co t tish.m inist e r s@go v .s co t Sue Webber, MSP Convener Education, Children and Young People Committee Scottish Parliament Edinburgh EH99 1SP ___ April 2024 Dear Convener, INDIVIDUAL TRAINING ACCOUNT SCHEME I am writing to provide an update on the final position on the Individual Training Account (ITA) Scheme for financial year 2024/25.