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The final report of the Scottish Mental Health Review was published in September 2022. The Scottish Government published their response to the final report in June 2023.
Outline of main provisions
Part 1 of the Bill seeks to make permanent some of the temporary justice measures set out in the Coronavirus (Recovery and Reform) (Scotland) Act 2022. The ones covered in the Bill are in following areas:
electronic signing and sending of documents in criminal cases
enabling virtual attendance at a criminal court
higher fiscal fi...
Committee reports
Date published:
25 September 2024
These instruments are laid separately from those laid by the Scottish Government so a separate analysis of the quality of these instruments is provided below.
10 instruments were laid by the LPPO in this reporting year which compares with 13 in 2022-23.
There were no instruments reported during the reporting year.
In respect of this specific Order, the Policy Memorandum states that “informal engagement with stakeholders was undertaken between October 2023 and March 2024 in connection to this Amendment Order, which also takes account of representations from stakeholders since licensing commenced in October 2022.”
The Committee invited written comments on the Order fro...
The Member cited the independent review published in 2022 of incineration infrastructure in Scotland (which was commissioned by the Scottish Government), and said that this approach should be mirrored across all waste reprocessing infrastructure to help identify opportunities and needs for different technologies and sectors e.g.
The 2022/23 audit of the Scottish Prison Service
The Committee took evidence from the Auditor General on the section 22 report on 1 February 2024, drawing on the work of the Session 5 Public Audit and Post-legislative Scrutiny Committee on the 2018/19 audit of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS).
The court decision, that the definition of 'woman' in section 2 of the 2018 Act was outside the legislative competence of the Scottish Parliament and was not lawful, has had effect from 19 April 2022.
The definition in section 2 which is to be removed is: ?