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SPICe briefings
Date published:
19 August 2019
Wild Salmon - Predators in rivers
Migration pathways, speed and mortality of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) smolts in a Scottish river and the near‐shore coastal marine environment.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
19 August 2019
Wild Salmon - Implications for management
The latter involves a set of general binding rules, enforced by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA), covering specific low risk activities, including surface water run-off from rural-land, keeping of livestock, operating sheep dipping facilities and storage/application of pesticides3SEPA. (2019).
Committee reports
Date published:
29 May 2019
Report on the 2016/17 and 2017/18 Audits of NHS Tayside - Challenge by the board
Challenge by the board
The GT1 report indicates that NHS Tayside financial plans include amounts defined as “deferred expenditure” relating to funding received from the Scottish Government but for which the costs will not be incurred for future years.
Committee reports
Date published:
16 May 2019
Children (Equal Protection from Assault) (Scotland) Bill Stage 1 Report - Human rights
The following table sets out various calls for the ending of physical punishment from international bodies and Committees.i Drawn from submissions by the Children and Young People’s Commissioner, Together Scotland, Scottish Human Rights Commission
Statements from international bodies and Committees on the use of physical punishmentUN Convention on the Rig...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
2 May 2019
Health and Care (Staffing) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3 Consideration - Consideration at Stage 1
We are unclear what the implications for a health board, or social care service, will be if they are unable to meet the requirements of the Bill due to circumstances such as above and would welcome information from the Scottish Government on how the Bill recognises and addresses such a situation.
Committee reports
Date published:
8 April 2019
Report on Police Scotland’s proposal to introduce the use of digital device triage systems (cyber kiosks) - Capital and revenue costs
The value of the contract for 41 cyber kiosks, published on the Public Contracts Scotland website by the Scottish Police Authority on behalf of Police Scotland, was £444,821, including VAT.
Committee reports
Date published:
8 April 2019
Report on Police Scotland’s proposal to introduce the use of digital device triage systems (cyber kiosks) - Governance and scrutiny
Police Scotland stated that the Scottish Police Authority ('SPA') had not received any specific briefing on cyber kiosks prior to commencing the trials, saying that: “The SPA receive regular updates on policing matters, including cybercrime and although no specific briefing to SPA occurred prior to trial commencement the proposal to procure cyber kiosks was...
Committee reports
Date published:
8 March 2019
The Glasgow School of Art Mackintosh Building: The loss of a national treasure - The Dual Purpose of the Mackintosh Building
The Committee recommends that HES and the Scottish Government review current guidance.
Committee reports
Date published:
7 March 2019
Stage 1 Report on the Transport (Scotland) Bill - Finance - bus services provisions
However, the Committee is concerned that whilst many of these provisions are broadly considered to be positive steps, the reality may be that few of them are taken up in practice due to a lack of financial resources to facilitate their set up and operation. The Committee calls on the Scottish Government to provide details of how it intends to monitor take-...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
24 January 2019
Immigration policy - the countdown to Brexit - EU Responses to the UK’s Immigration Proposals
EU Responses to the UK’s Immigration Proposals
Having considered the responses of Scottish actors to the proposed UK immigration proposals, it is also useful to reflect on how EU actors have reacted to proposals to end freedom of movement and remove any preferential treatment for EEA nationals in the UK, as this will be a key area of discussion in future U...
