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Date published:
1 November 2024
Delegated powers in the Right to Addiction Recovery (Scotland) Bill at Stage 1 - Review of relevant powers
Section 3(2) sets out that treatment is not to be refused to a patient on the basis of any matter, other than an assessment by a relevant health professional of the best interests of the patient. It sets out a non-exhaustive list of reasons that may not be used in refusing treatment to a patient which includes: the cost of the treatment, any ongoing misus...
Committee reports
Date published:
9 September 2024
Post-legislative scrutiny of the Social Care (Self-directed Support) (Scotland) Act 2013: Phase 2 - Commissioning and tendering
The Committee calls on COSLA and Health and Social Care Scotland to ensure examples of best practice in these specific areas are disseminated across all HSCPs and local authorities.
Committee reports
Date published:
22 February 2024
Stage 1 report on the National Care Service (Scotland) Bill - Reserving right to participate in procurement by type of organisation
Instead, procurement must be centred on what services and supports can best meet the needs of individuals and communities, informed by strategic plans and ethical commissioning approaches and premised on providing a mix and balance of provision that secures quality, sustainability and choice.
Committee reports
Date published:
22 February 2024
Stage 1 report on the National Care Service (Scotland) Bill - Regulation of social services
It would instead make an application to the Sheriff Court to cancel the registration, saving time and resource and achieving the desired and best outcome for users of the service more quickly.
Committee reports
Date published:
10 January 2024
Delegated powers in the Housing (Cladding Remediation) (Scotland) Bill at Stage 1 - Review of relevant powers
The Committee considers it is appropriate that the Scottish Ministers are also given the flexibility to decide how best to ensure compliance with such a scheme, the penalties for non-compliance and appropriate offences as this will be dependent on how the scheme is designed and who is responsible for operating it.
Committee reports
Date published:
2 November 2023
Delegated powers in the Welfare of Dogs (Scotland) Bill at Stage 1 - Review of relevant powers
Committee consideration
The Member in Charge explains in the DPM that the reasons for taking the power are that:
as the Bill provides the Scottish Ministers with a power to establish a puppy register and then sets out parameters for how such a register might be established, it is appropriate that they are also given the flexibility to decide how best to ens...
Committee reports
Date published:
1 June 2023
Annual Report of the LocalGovernment, Housing and PlanningCommittee for 2022-23
The Committee focussed on:
Whether there is adequate funding in place to deliver on the Scottish Government’s affordable housing supply programme;
what the impact has been of increasing costs for housing development programmes and how the Scottish Government’s financial support for housebuilding is working in practice to mitigate those increased costs;
how funding could be best used to meet housing needs and deliver on planning and design objectives;
if the building of 110,000 affordable homes is meeting Scotland’s housing needs;
how funding for affordable housing is contributing to the delivery of the national outcomes in the National Performance Framework
The Committee held two evidence sessions on this topic and wrote to the then Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Housing and Local Government.
Committee reports
Date published:
23 March 2023
New vessels for the Clyde and Hebrides: Arrangements to deliver vessels 801 and 802 - Commencement and sequencing of the work
They went on to state however that—
it is not unusual for the buyer and the shipbuilder to agree to a payment schedule that best suits the project. It is our understanding that, during discussions in the period between FMEL being announced as the preferred bidder and the contract being awarded in October, seven iterations of the milestone payment schedule w...
Committee reports
Date published:
6 October 2022
Allotments and community growing: the impact of Part 9 of the Community Empowerment Act - Access to land
The Committee recommends that the Scottish Government considers how it could best address this through simplifying the transfer process, and ensure that the Act meets its policy intention.
Committee reports
Date published:
28 September 2022
Tackling health inequalities in Scotland - Informal caring as a social determinant of health
In 2021, Public Health England conducted a rapid review of reviews and an analysis of data from the GP Patient Survey with the aim of exploring the consequences of being an unpaid carer of older people and how best to support this group of carersCaring as a social determinant of health (publishing.service.gov.uk).
