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Committee reports
Date published:
5 November 2021
Legislative Consent Memorandum: delegated powers relevant to Scotland in the Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill
Committee consideration
The UK DPM states that this power is required to take account of the complex framework created by retained direct EU legislation and other animal welfare legislation, including the application of the Animal Health Act 1981 to enforce retained direct EU legislation on animal welfare and transport in England, Scotland and Wales.
Committees
Published:
4 November 2021
The Role of the Scottish Criminal Justice Sector in Tackling the Misuse of Drugs
We are aware of at least one occasion where an officer trained in Naloxone was “racing the ambulance” (so they could administer naloxone). In some other accounts, there appears to have been some corporate embellishment that officers have subsequently admitted to feeling compelled to go along with.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
10 September 2021
Energy Policy - Subject Profile - Introduction - sources and pathways
Retrieved from <a href="https://www.bp.com/en/global/corporate/energy-economics/statistical-review-of-world-energy.html" target="_blank">https://www.bp.com/en/global/corporate/energy-economics/statistical-review-of-world-energy.html</a> [accessed 16 June 2021]:
Energy consumption fell by 4.5% in 2020; driven mainly by a decline in demand for oil, with gas and coal also experiencing significant drops
Capacity in wind, solar and hydroelectricity all grew despite the fall in overall energy demand
By country, the US, India and Russia experienced the largest declines in energy consumption. China accounted...
Committee reports
Date published:
27 November 2020
Report on the Valuation (Postponement of Revaluation) (Coronavirus) (Scotland) Order 2020
At its meeting on 18 November 2020 the Local Government and Communities Committee took evidence on the instrument from:
Ben Macpherson, Minister for Public Finance & Migration
Ian Storrie, Head of Non-Domestic Rates Policy
Anouk Berthier, Non-Domestic Rates Team Leader, Scottish Government
In his opening statement, the Minister for Public Finance & Migration explained that the option of a maintaining a 2022 revaluation with a 2021 tone date was rejected on the basis of risk and a lack of robust evidence to justify a 2021 tone date. Their decision took into account...
Committee reports
Date published:
22 June 2020
PE1319: Improving youth football in Scotland - Minimum wage
Col 40
Mr Regan emphasised that, in terms of taking into account factors regarding payments complying with minimum wage:
It is the total earnings.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
21 April 2020
UK-EU Future Relationship Negotiations: Fisheries - 2. Relevant rules of international law relating to the conservation and management of shared fish stocks
In doing so, the coastal state must take into account “the best scientific evidence available to it” (UNCLOS, Article 61(2)) and it is under a duty to ensure that fishing does not lead to overexploitation of the stocks.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
1 April 2020
The revised UK Fisheries Bill - 4.1 Climate Change and Sustainability
Baroness Young of Old Scone (Lab) stated:
somewhere in the mix we need a legal duty on relevant public authorities to achieve these objectives and be accountable by publishing specific regular reports on their achievement of the objectives, not just on their activities.1House of Commons Hansard. (2020, February 11).
Committee reports
Date published:
19 November 2019
Report on STEM in early years education - Summary of recommendations
Remote and rural areas
The Committee recommends that the Scottish Government reviews its approach to publicly funded large STEM related initiatives to ensure the approach taken by such initiatives focuses sufficiently on remote and rural areas. Such a review should take into account the need to counteract the urban bias and 'self-selection' bias of numerous...
Committee reports
Date published:
1 November 2019
UEFA European Championship (Scotland) Bill: Stage One Report - Ticket Touting
In this sense, the Bill seeks to take account of technological change since 2008 to ensure that touting via electronic means such as, public internet sites or private electronic messaging applications, would constitute an offence.
Committee reports
Date published:
4 October 2019
Report on Funding of European Union Structural Fund priorities in Scotland, post-Brexit - Match Funding, pre-allocation and competitive funding
Retrieved from <a href="https://www.parliament.scot/S5_Finance/Inquiries/26.2_Fife_Council.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.parliament.scot/S5_Finance/Inquiries/26.2_Fife_Council.pdf</a> [accessed 16 September 2019]
Responding to the EEFW Committee on how funding might be allocated to Scotland from the UKSPF, the Minister highlighted the importance of maintaining, post- Brexit, the higher funding levels that Highlands and Islands received as a transition area (one of three in the UK) but that—
we are very keen to push strongly the argument that funding for Scotland must be maintained at least at the level that it is at now, and that division of the funding among the four nations of the UK must take that into account...
