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In 2020 and 2021
DAERA will seek legal authority to maintain the status quo so the direct payment scheme continues as if under EU rules. Rules such as active farmer provisions, land eligibility rules, cross compliance, penalty regime (with some simplification), inspection regime will be kept.
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Nevertheless, the Cabinet Secretary expressed a note of caution suggesting that focusing resources on recording and reporting on biological data might run the risk of detracting from the actual activity to comply with the biodiversity duty.2Public Audit and Post-legislative Scrutiny Committee. (2018, June 7).
The BMA also highlighted that the influence and activity of existing mechanisms for influencing health board decisions (e.g. area medical committees, consultant subcommittees and specialty subcommittees) were patchy and varied greatly between NHS boards.
It gave an update on college finances and an analysis of learning activity. The Committee took oral evidence from the Scottish Government, Scottish Funding Council and Colleges Scotland.
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This suggests some lack of clarity about whether and how much public sector bodies such as enterprise agencies contribute to achieving the National Outcomes and how difficult it is to demonstrate and measure what contributions their activities...
The boundaries of the spawning areas have also slowly changed, with an increase in spawning activity in the north of the area and to the west of the shelf edge.3Scottish Government.
It states that these variations reflect:
...part, the nature of growth in cities, which benefit from a concentration of economic activity, also drawing in workers from surrounding areas.
An on-line questionnaire was sent to all 364 secondary schools in Scotland and issued to the 19 secondary schools who visited the Parliament in September. The pupils were given a short activity which provided them with an overview and context of the Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications (Scotland) Act 2012 before being asked to comp...
Planning authorities have a number of formal enforcement options they can pursue, which are briefly summarised below:
Planning Contravention Notice: A Planning Authority can issue a Planning Contravention Notice (to anyone with an interest in land) to obtain information on whether activities on that land constitute a breach of planning control.