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How has EU law been brought into effect in Scotland to date?
Section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 gives Scottish Ministers powers to make regulations (secondary legislation) in devolved areas (those which are not reserved to the UK Parliament under the Scotland Act) for the purpose of giving effect to EU law.
Delegated Powers Provisions
At its meeting on 7 March 2017, the Committee considered the one power in the Bill which confers delegated powers on the Scottish Ministers as follows:
Section 3 – Absolute poverty base date amendment regulations
The Committee agreed to write to the Scottish Government to raise questions on the power.
If you want to talk about ethics, one ethic ought to be to empower individuals by empowering the collective, but that has not happened to date. I am happy to move on because of time.
We would be interested in your reflections, perhaps at a later date, on whether there are any issues to do with the unique concentration of banking services in the Scottish market, which is contingent on the market structure that now prevails here.
There is a distinction between that and the bank, which is the NHS’s own staff. Nothing suggests to me that there are concerns about the quality of what we get, although clearly we all have the ambition of having full establishments and using our bank where possible.