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The experience of Ferguson Marine emphasises the need for a long-term strategy for Scotland’s shipbuilding industry. In March, Audit Scotland called for Transport Scotland to finalise the long-term plan and investment programme for ferries by the end of this year.
I saw a figure recently that suggested that the amount of money that is coming out of the benefit system in Scotland in this session of Parliament is equivalent to what we spend on Police Scotland in its entirety.
We must make a judgement about how much effort to spend in making sure that everything about a particular data set is absolutely right versus making sure that the vast majority of it is right.
The Scottish Government had planned to introduce a Bill criminalising misogynistic conduct, but subsequently decided not to proceed with such a Bill in this parliamentary session.
Official Status
The purpose of the first section is to declare that Gaelic has official status in Scotland. The Bill states that this will be given effect by:
provisions in the 2005 Act (as amended by the present Bill) in relation to the functions of Bòrd na Gàidhlig, the Sc...
10th Meeting, 2024.
Criminal Justice Bill (UK Parliament legislation), Subordinate legislation, Victims, Witnesses, and Justice Reform (Scotland) Bill (in private).
Nevertheless, the Bill sets out in section 18 that the definition of the South of Scotland is restricted to the Dumfries and Galloway and Scottish Borders council areas, at least for the purposes of this legislation.
Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1 Agenda item 3 is our last evidence session on the Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Scotland) Bill at stage 1.