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Members will remember the petition from our meeting on 13 March. Mrs Rae called on the Parliament to review and amend the existing law pertaining to contracts between building companies and their clients.At the meeting in March, we agreed to pass the petition to the Executive to respond to the issues raised in it.
A Commission decision could be taken by the Standing Veterinary Committee at its February meeting at the earliest, although the time scale may slip to March or April. It is difficult for us—we are pressing Brussels gently, but as hard as we can, if you know what I mean.
Committee reports
Date published:
28 February 2024
There was general agreement that a personal apology should be given to victims/survivors alongside a redress payment and that a dedicated support service would continue to be needed once the financial redress scheme was in place.vFinancial redress for historical child abuse in care: consultation analysis, Scottish Government, 23 March 2020, pp.1-3 (https://...
If there is a proven record of disorder, violence and displays of sectarian hate at marches, councils will, under the bill, be able to ban the marches in future years.We have also heard about the proposal to improve the system of summary justice.
They must consider the needs of the world's poor and they must listen to the tens of thousands who will march and demand that those leaders make poverty history.
—Official Report, House of Lords, 12 March 2001; Vol 623, c 540.Barbara Castle, not for the first time and, doubtless, not for the last time, was right.
In advance of giving evidence to the Committee he had stated that “Scotland has no reliable method of monitoring the performance of schools in literacy and numeracy for the first time in almost 60 years”.1The Herald. (2018, March 31). Monitoring of Schools "woefully inadequate" warns top academic.