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Good morning, Mr Sweeney—it is always a pleasure to have you with us. 10:30 As the SPICe briefing highlights, granting legal personhood to rivers is part of the wider rights-to-nature movement, which is an emerging area of conservation law and practice.
We can think about the impact on debt interest, because the UK already pays six times more in debt interest than it spends on the NHS in Scotland in a year.
A second SPICe briefing addresses the implications of the UK’s exit from the EU for the competition powers devolved to Scottish Ministers by the Scotland Act 2016.