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SPICe briefings
Date published:
28 May 2020
The UK Environment Bill - Background to electronic waste tracking clause
It was estimated that in 2015 illegal waste activity cost over £600 million in England2Noel, L. (2018).
Committee reports
Date published:
7 May 2020
Environmental Regulation (Enforcement Measures) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2020 [draft] - Annexe A
These enforcement measures are designed to offer SEPA a proportionate set of tools for dealing with specified offences and it has been considered appropriate to extend these measures so as to apply in respect of compliance monitoring and enforcement activity for the deposit return scheme.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
1 April 2020
The revised UK Fisheries Bill - 3.1 Fisheries objectives - Clause 1
Most objectives apply to “fish activities”, which broadly covers the catching, transportation and processing of fish, whether or not carried out in the course of business and so includes not only commercial fishing, but also recreational fishing.
Committee reports
Date published:
13 March 2020
Consumer Scotland Bill as amended at Stage 2 - Delegated Powers
Delegated Powers
At its meeting on 10 March 2020 the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee agreed that it was content with the following power in the Consumer Scotland Bill which was the only new power added at Stage 2:
Section 6(3) – specified persons whose activities Consumer Scotland must have regard to
The Committee also reconsidered the power belo...
Committee reports
Date published:
3 March 2020
Stage 1 Report on the Agriculture (Retained EU Law and Data) (Scotland) Bill - Less Favoured Area Support Scheme
Retrieved from <a href="https://www.parliament.scot/S5_Bills/Agriculture%20(Retained%20EU%20Law%20and%20Data)%20(Scotland)%20Bill/SPBill59PMS052019.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.parliament.scot/S5_Bills/Agriculture%20(Retained%20EU%20Law%20and%20Data)%20(Scotland)%20Bill/SPBill59PMS052019.pdf</a> [accessed 17 February 2020]
Giving oral evidence to the committee on behalf of NFU Scotland, Jonnie Hall outlined the importance of LFASS while also arguing for the scheme to be redesigned as a matter of urgency to improve its effectiveness by moving away from an area-based payment approach to an approach that supports activity...
Committee reports
Date published:
28 December 2019
Stage 1 Report on the Consumer Scotland Bill - Collaboration
Collaboration
The Bill would place on Consumer Scotland a duty to collaborate with other organisations. It "must have regard to" activities being carried out by public bodies with similar functions, as well as the desirability of working with othersiConsumer Scotland Bill [as introduced].
Committee reports
Date published:
5 December 2019
Female Genital Mutilation (Protection and Guidance) (Scotland) Bill - Stage 1 Report - Failure to Protect
Others described situations where their husbands had made decisions with other family members without their knowledge or consent, sometimes actively misleading the woman. Another recounted an adult woman being forcibly re-infibulated against her will during a trip to her home country.
Committee reports
Date published:
1 December 2019
Pre-budget scrutiny of the Scottish Government's draft budget 2020/21: justice and policing - Prison numbers
He also said that this has an impact on other activities within the prison, such as the dispensing of medicine to prisoners.1Justice Committee. (2019, September 17).
Committee reports
Date published:
1 December 2019
Pre-budget scrutiny of the Scottish Government's draft budget 2020/21: justice and policing - Local authority funding of criminal justice
Local authority funding of criminal justice
One of the particular challenges reported by a number of third sector bodies to the Committee is the funding of criminal justice projects where the money has been channelled through local authorities. At present, criminal justice activity, such as social work in local authorities, has funding provided to local au...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
21 November 2019
The Children (Scotland) Bill - Background
Retrieved from <a href="https://www2.gov.scot/resource/doc/334161/0109246.pdf" target="_blank">https://www2.gov.scot/resource/doc/334161/0109246.pdf</a> [accessed 26 October 2019] Thirty nine per cent of cases it examined were still active after 18 months. Many litigants surveyed for the research were concerned about "an apparently open-ended se...
