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Someone else may phone and say that you are entitled to a free grant or a free payment, but it is all about trying to extract bank card information so that they can use it to take money unscrupulously.
We rapidly debated difficult amendments that deserved proper consideration, and there has been no good explanation of why the legislation must pass in 2022—three days before Christmas—when we could spend 2023 fixing its flaws.
Would he rule out any intervention on taxation, interest rates, borrowing or backing up the banking sector? Exactly what would be ruled out in terms of the control of Scotland’s economy in the unlikely event of any monetary union?
Committee reports
Date published:
26 September 2025
A comparison is drawn to section 44 of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022, which similarly enables the Secretary of State to amend the Schedule 3 list of persons authorised to extract information stored on a digital device.
At the weekend, the First Minister did not rule out a referendum as early as spring 2022 given the current state of the pandemic in the UK and the effectiveness of the vaccination programme.
It also has concerns about the potential negative impact of this change on the independent sector.xliGraham Simpson MSP additionally proposed the inclusion of the following text: "The Committee recommends that section 10 should not be implemented until the 2022 revaluation, to give schools more time to prepare for the change."