This search includes all content on the Scottish Parliament website, except for Votes and Motions. All Official Reports (what has been said in Parliament) and Questions and Answers are available from 1999. You can refine your search by adding and removing filters.
Oxfam Scotland made a similar suggestion – that the Bill could “absorb and, crucially, strengthen the existing duties on Ministers and public bodies contained within the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015”.
The opportunity to have a Member’s Bill is potentially around having statutory legislation which describes a right to palliative care for people where the SG can decide which organisations have the obligations to fulfil that right and ensure that right is realised.
Motions for Debate *S5M-19743 Michael Russell: Referendums (Scotland) Bill—That the Parliament agrees to the general principles of the Referendums (Scotland) Bill.
The Children's Commissioner also suggested that the wording in the Bill which states "give the child an opportunity to express the child's views" should be replaced with "ensure all children have the right to express their views and have those views taken into account".1Children and Young People's Commissioner Scotland. (2019).
Any increase as a result of the enhanced profile of the right to withdraw would be an indirect consequence of the Bill’s passage, rather than a direct consequence of the Bill’s provisions. 52.