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Committee reports
Date published:
12 November 2018
Preventative Action and Public Health - Detect Cancer Early
The most common cancers in Scotland are lung, colorectal and breast cancer, which collectively account for over 43% of all cancers diagnosed.
Committee reports
Date published:
7 November 2018
Age of Criminal Responsibility (Scotland) Bill Stage 1 Report - Cognitive Development
The Centre suggested that a similar set of provisions could be applied in Scotland and that “we believe that including these additional tests to the proposed legislation would be a sensible and just approach which takes into account the issues of free will; trauma, adversity and poverty; and brain development, maturity and understanding, as raised above".
SPICe briefings
Date published:
11 October 2018
Brewing and distilling in Scotland - economic facts and figures - Income
Retrieved from <a href="http://www.scottishbeerandpub.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/SBPA-OE-Report-17-slim.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.scottishbeerandpub.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/SBPA-OE-Report-17-slim.pdf</a> [accessed 17 September 2018] (SBPA) found that Scotland's breweries accounted for 1,820 direct jobs with wages of £52 million ...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
4 July 2018
Risk management in agriculture - New Zealand
Catastrophic risks
Biosecurity New Zealand is an important area of New Zealand's agricultural policy, which is primarily responsible for protection against invasive species, and accounts for around 80% of the Ministry Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) total budget5Melyukhina, O. (2011).
Committee reports
Date published:
6 June 2018
Subordinate Legislation considered by the Health and Sport Committee on 05 June 2018 - Equality Act 2010 (Specific Duties) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2018 [draft]
Specific duties include: assessing the impact of new or revised policies/practice on the needs set out in the public sector equality duty; the publication of equality outcomes; reporting on mainstreaming equality; publishing information on the gender pay gap and equal pay; gathering employee information in relation to protected characteristics and using this information to better perform the equality duty; and taking account...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
3 May 2018
Management of Offenders (Scotland) Bill - Case for reform
The consequences of having to self-disclose previous offending behaviour for long periods of time and for such information to be included on a basic disclosure certificate can have an on-going impact on people's ability to gain employment, attend university or college, volunteer, secure an apprenticeship or get insurance or a bank account, etc.
The provisio...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
9 April 2018
Social Security (Scotland) Bill: Consideration prior to Stage 3 - Part 1 of the bill - amendments agreed to
The principle of continuous improvement (s.1(f) of the bill) was amended (5 and 6) to require that in considering changes to the social security system, Ministers must seek to promote equality of opportunity. see further discussion above.Legal effect of the social security principles57 - Adam TomkinsThis amendment provides that whilst courts and tribunals may take the principles into account, a breach of the principles does not itself give rise to grounds for legal action.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
23 February 2018
A Guide to Gross Value Added (GVA) in Scotland - What is Gross Value Added (GVA)?
This is a simplified explanation of GVA using the production approach and does not reflect some of the conceptual complexities involved in its measurement (e.g. treatment of inventories of materials and unsold finished goods, product taxes, or own-account production).
SPICe briefings
Date published:
20 February 2018
Planning (Scotland) Bill: Proposed Infrastructure Levy - What does the Bill propose?
Fees may be chargeable for such appeals and provision may be made for the award of expenses incurred by parties taking part in any such appeal
make provision about infrastructure levy accounts that must be kept by local authorities
may require local authorities to transfer some, or all, infrastructure levy income to Scottish Ministers and, where this is the...
Committee reports
Date published:
20 February 2018
Subordinate legislation considered by the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee on 20 February 2018 - Annex A
That list included Scottish Ministers and the policy note goes on to state that ""Scottish Ministers" includes the following: The Scottish Government, Accountant in Bankruptcy; Disclosure Scotland; Education Scotland; Scottish Prison Service; Scottish Public Pensions Agency; Student Awards Agency for Scotland; Transport Scotland."
