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She said this would not be "a good use of Parliamentary time and resource".Letter from the Acting Cabinet Secretary to the Convener of the DPLR Committee, dated 12 September
The Delegated Powers Memorandum also notes that this approach gives the Scottish Ministers flexibility to amend the budgets on account of other legislative changes; for example if the n...
The 2019 Act set the level of ambition via the interim targets, with annual targets then set via a ‘straight-line’ approach between the interim dates. The 2024 Bill proposes that the level of ambition, (set via carbon budgets) is now to be set by secondary legislation.
The period that a CCP had to cover was also previously defined as either 15 years or 10-20 years (as long as it ended on an interim target date). The Policy Memorandum sets out that that future CCPs will now have 5-year terms so as to align with the carbon budget periods.
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In relation to its plans to move to a series of rolling reviews rather than review all Scottish local authorities at once, Professor Henderson explained that “rolling reviews allow us a deeper amount of engagement with the public and organisations in council areas” but that:
"The only hiccup about moving to 2031 is that we will be commencing a review in 2028, at exactly the time when the Boundaries Scotland and Boundary Commission for Scotland secretariat is supposed to be commencing a Westminster constituency boundary review. There is not a problem with the dates...
The Cabinet Secretary considered there were very good reasons for having different dates in place for clients to apply and for Social Security Scotland to undertake its work.
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The Bill also includes a power to set a period of time from any date of resignation after which no steps (or only certain steps) in the procedure can be applied unless additional criteria are met.
Representatives from third sector organisations expressed concerns about the level of the stipend as well as the impact of delays in processing applications with no end date and the long periods spent in temporary accommodation with no right to work.