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The Committee predominantly met in person in the Parliament, with a small number of witnesses attending online.
Of the Committee’s 37 meetings, five meetings were held entirely in public, four meetings were held entirely in private, and 28 meetings included some private items.
Oral evidence was heard in November and December 2023, followed by two online informal engagement events with representatives from local patient campaign groups as well as rural GPs and multi-disciplinary teams (MDTs) in January and February 2024.
Discussions included:
public attitudes to elections and the importance of promoting resilience and public confidence in elections
electoral legislation across the UK, including the the Scottish Elections (Representation and Reform) Bill
arrangements for online absent vote applications for Scottish and Welsh local government elections and Scottish Parliament...
Committee reports
Date published:
12 September 2023
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Working methods will vary according to the topic and the preferences of each panel, but are likely to involve:
initial induction and scene-setting sessions
a mixture of in-person and online sessions
a mixture of whole-panel (plenary) and smaller break-out groups to encourage all panel members to contribute in ways ...
Thankfully the Scottish National Party Government has done the right thing and ended the destructive right-to-buy policy, a move that has helped local authorities across the country to have the confidence to build council houses once again.
Another part might be saying, “We, as a community, just don’t like this,” in exactly the same way as I do not buy food that I dislike the taste of not because of a rational case for not buying it but because I do not like it.
The process is jointly managed, so there is buy-in from both the health service and the local authority in trying to fix problems, which can be complex at times.
As we all know, Scottish public bodies spend about £10 billion every year buying things, so the decisions that they make when they spend that money are enormously important to businesses, the third sector and the economy as a whole.