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The Finance and Public Administration Committee asked whether the Scottish Government had made a similar assessment of costs, how these compare to the ones provided by Police Scotland, and why they had not been included in the Financial Memorandum.
Less Favoured Area Support Scheme
The Policy Memorandum cites future adjustments to the Less Favoured Area Support Scheme (LFASS) as a specific example of the type of simplification or improvement that could be made using the power under section 2 of the Bill. It suggests that, compared to the existing option of continuing with significantly reduced LFASS p...
The Committee considers the fines that the Regulations propose for non-compliance with the RCI, by providing false or misleading information, are not in line with those in relevant comparable legislation. The Committee believes that organisations and individuals should face similar sanctions for similar breaches, irrespective of which register their informa...
Recent research shows that 30 per cent of prisoners' children suffer significant mental health problems; the comparable figure for the general population is 10 per cent.
Therefore, I support amendment 99.If we compare amendment 25 with amendment 95, we see that there is serious doubt about what the words "doing any act preparatory to"in amendment 95 mean.
It adds burdens to the Scottish economy that damage our businesses and their competitiveness compared with the rest of the UK. We have distance-to-market problems.