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Official Report, 5 March 2020, Col 2.
The Committee supports the Scottish Government’s aim of upholding human rights and equality through the opening of opportunities and provision of greater choice.
However, on balance, the Committee agrees that the place for the necessary amendments will be through the forthcoming Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill.
The Committee asks the Scottish Government to consider the evidence we have heard on simplifying the process for interim gender recognition and use this to inform their decisions following the cons...
Similarly, the Criminal Justice Voluntary Sector Forum said that its "members believe that it is necessary to revisit the concluding recommendations of the Scottish Prisons Commission that Scotland should pursue a prison population of 5000 people through focusing the use of imprisonment on those who have committed serious crimes and constitute a danger to t...
Committee reports
Date published:
26 November 2019
NHS Forth Valley should work with Scottish Patient Safety Programme to help implement the recommendations regarding medication made during the HMIPS inspection.
Committee reports
Date published:
22 November 2019
This is not information which is maintained by the Scottish Government. Following my evidence session I became aware that DCC Taylor wrote to you on this matter on 27 September 2019.
Retrieved from to be added [accessed 6 June 2019]The survey data suggests that seafood processing in Scotland is more reliant on immigrant labour than in any other part of the UK. Across Scottish sites sampled, an estimated 69% of semi-skilled roles, 60% of low skilled roles and 77% of unskilled roles were held by EEA workers.
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The Committee also heard opposing views from road user representative organisations suggesting that achieving compliance would be problematic. For example, the Scottish Taxi Federation said that its membership of 23,000 public hire taxi drivers did not support the Bill, as the consensus was that the Bill's blanket approach...
Retrieved from <a href="https://www.parliament.scot/S5_JusticeCommittee/Inquiries/20190201LordAdvocatetoMM.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.parliament.scot/S5_JusticeCommittee/Inquiries/20190201LordAdvocatetoMM.pdf</a> The Scottish Government provided a response on 4 February.4Scottish Government. (2019, February 4).
Committee reports
Date published:
25 February 2019
This instrument will provide a duty on Scottish Ministers to deliver a one-off payment to support people on certain benefits or tax credits by providing a contribution towards the cost of a funeral.