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In managing this interest, we attempted to balance the need to hear a range of views on the key provisions of the Bill with a desire by the Committee to ensure that the Bill could proceed through all its stages in the time remaining in this parliamentary session, should the Bill pass at Stage 1.
Although I very much welcome the bill’s extension of rights to children with capacity, as Inclusion Scotland and the children’s commissioner have pointed out, the bill creates several barriers to children being able to exercise their rights.
It therefore did not include an evaluation of best value, privacy, human rights and ethical assessments.
In its written evidence, the SPA confirmed that after considering the report, the Chair of the Policing Performance Committee (PPC) escalated concerns about its content to Deputy Chief Constable Malcolm Graham, and Police Scotland and the SPA agreed that:
“Police Scotland would submit a revised evaluation report to the Authority’s PPC in March 2021.
UEFA European Championship (Scotland) Bill Marshalled List of Amendments for Stage 2 The Bill will be considered in the following order— Sections 1 to 36 Long Title mendments marked * are new (including manuscript amendments) or have been altered.
The Committee took evidence on this issue from Global as well as written evidence from the regulator, Ofcom.
Bills
Census (Amendment)(Scotland) Bill
On 2 October, the Scottish Government introduced the Census (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill.