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A lot of what we have is anecdotal but accountants’ bread and butter is about making sure your tax is right less rather than right more—might that be the way to put it?
Changes to the Stage 1 timetable and further scrutiny
On 28 February 2023, the office of the Minister for Parliamentary Business contacted the Committee to request that the Stage 1 deadline for scrutiny of the National Care Service (Scotland) Bill, originally agreed as Friday, 17 March 2023, be delayed...
This will restore to the history books an acknowledgment that these people were, as one memorial states “just folk”.
A draft of the bill. A bill is very simple in the present case, and needs no more than two sections.
Committee reports
Date published:
22 November 2021
It said:
The Committee has heard recent evidence of the significant workforce planning and recruitment challenges currently facing Scotland’s health and social care workforce as it seeks to recover from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Committee reports
Date published:
11 November 2020
For instance, giving evidence on behalf of Scottish Environment LINK, Vicki Swales of RSPB Scotland said:
The bill says that its purposes are the simplification and improvement of the CAP legislation, but, arguably, one person’s definition of simplification and improvement might be another’s nightmare.
I am determined that increased investment in Scotland’s natural capital will deliver benefits for our local communities in line with those important just transition principles.
The Committee agrees the general principles of Part 2 of the UK Withdrawal from the European Union (Continuity) (Scotland) Bill, in so far as it is the Bill’s objective to provide legal recognition for environmental principles and oversight of the implementation of, and compli...