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Agenda for Social Justice and Social Security Committee 5th Meeting, 2021 Thursday, September 23, 2021.
5th Meeting, 2021
Date: Thursday, September 23, 2021
Session: 6
Location: T4.40-CR2 The Fairfax Somerville Room
Start time: 09:45am
1 Decision on taking business in private:
The Committee will decide whether to take item 3 in private.
2 Scottish Go...
Minutes for Public Audit Committee 2nd Meeting, 2021 Thursday, September 2, 2021.
2nd Meeting, 2021
Date: Thursday, September 2, 2021
Session: 6
Location: T1.60-CR4 The Clerk Maxwell Room
Meeting opened at: 09:00am
Meeting closed at: 10:43am
Committee Members Attendees
Colin Beattie
Sharon Dowey (Deputy Convener)
Richard Leonard (Convener)
Wil...
Agenda.
1st Meeting, 2021
Date: Tuesday, June 22, 2021
Session: 6
Location: www.scottishparliament.tv
Start time: 09:30am
1 Declaration of interests:
Members of the Committee will be invited to declare any relevant interests.
Once someone has been successful in changing their gender they will be issued with a GRC and their legal sex changes.
To date, 5,583 people have legally changed their sex in the UK through the gender recognition process since 2005.
This decision was taken in response to the Scottish General Election (Coronavirus) Act 2021 which provides that the Scottish Parliament will not be dissolved until 5 May 2021 to permit the Parliament to meet to legislate for a new polling date if required.
The Committee's audit work is focused on the scrutiny of reports produced by the Auditor General for S...
The Sub-Committee recommends that the SPA assesses whether Police Scotland’s deployment of drones to date is in accordance with law, in pursuit of a legitimate aim, and necessary.
About the Bill - key dates and documents
The Defamation and Malicious Publication (Scotland) Bill was introduced in the Scottish Parliament on 2 December 2019 by Humza Yousaf, Cabinet Secretary for Justice.
The Bill was referred to the Justice Committee for Stage 1 scrutiny and the Committee issued a call for evidence on 20 September 2019, with a closing date of 15 November 2019. The Committee received 75 responses to its call for evidence and 12 supplementary responses during its Stage 1 scrutiny of the Bill.
Committee reports
Date published:
26 February 2020
Annex
Letter to the Minister for Parliamentary Business and Veterans dated 25 February 2020
Dear Minister,
I write in relation to the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee’s recent consideration of the Council Tax Reduction (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2020 (SSI 2020/25).