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The Committee also undertook a fact-finding visit to ScottishPower Energy Networks’ control room in Glasgow and Whitelee onshore wind farm near Eaglesham.
The Committee will produce a report to Parliament in summer 2023, making recommendations for the Scottish Government as it finalises its draft Energy Strategy and Just Transition Plan.
SPSO Whistleblowing Standards for the NHS
The SPSO has produced, and is currently consulting upon, a set of draft Standards for the NHS which consist of five key elements;
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As there is no Scottish example of a Quality Contract or bus franchising scheme to use as a benchmark for estimating likely future costs the financial memorandum highlights figures produced by the Greater Manchester Combined Authority2Greater Manchester Combined Authority. (2018, March 16).
Committee reports
Date published:
25 September 2017
Benefits from a statutory based NFI
There was a general consensus in the evidence we received about the benefits of putting the NFI on a statutory footing, for example—
Increased participation: participation has been increased; this in turn has led to an increase in the number of data sets for comparison to produce matches for investigation. Overall it was felt this produced better results and made the exercise more successful and worthwhile.
First, given Lord Wheatley's decision in the case of SC v City of Edinburgh Council last year, we need to reinstate the concept of additional support outside the classroom as intrinsic to the additional support that is required under the bill.
Specifically, it discusses the potential effects of:
Reducing the starter income tax rate in Scotland from 19% to 0%
Increasing child benefit by £18.45 per week
Changing the child related elements of Universal Credit
The project uses EUROMOD for simulating the tax and benefit rules to produce an estimate of the net income of each household, and of various ...
The committee will be keen to hear that I have agreed that the Scottish Fiscal Commission will produce the official forecasts of gross domestic product and tax revenues.
From memory, I think that some of the detail produced by justice analytics showed that the general trend is that the peak in offending—regardless of gender—is moving to the right; the group is getting older.