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Mike Pringle has lodged a draft proposal for an environmental levy on plastic bags (Scotland) bill, which would place an environmental levy on specified plastic bags that would be payable by the consumer.
In part this reflects policy choices made by the UK Government, which result in energy levies being recovered through electricity tariffs to a far greater extent than gas.
Its recommendations included calling for the introduction of compulsory sales orders to tackle the blight of empty homes and for Councils to stop using the council tax levy, which allows local authorities to remove the discount on empty properties and charge a council tax increase of up to 100%, as a revenue raising tool.
Following the evidence session on 6 February the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport wrote to the Convener on the issue of the UK Government's Apprenticeship Levy introduced in April 2017.
The Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport gives evidence on Care Home Sustainability.
The Committee further considered that a power for the Scottish Ministers to set and to amend charges levied in connection with the carrying out of their functions under the Bill by subordinate legislation (rather than by executive action) would provide an opportunity for Parliament fully to scrutinise the detail of any charging regime imposed under section ...
However, we should also realise that the Holocaust never left many of the people who suffered from it. After the writer Primo Levi threw himself to his death in 1987, Elie Wiesel commented: “Primo Levi died at Auschwitz forty years earlier”.
I cannot say that I count my speeches; most of them are probably instantly forgettable, but that is not a charge that we can ever levy at Mr Stevenson. He mentioned Franz Fischler.