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Committee reports
Date published:
23 November 2023
Addressing Child Poverty Through Parental Employment - Introduction
Local authorities and health boards are also required to report jointly every year on their activity.
As part of the Committee’s 2023-24 budget scrutiny, the Committee heard that a greater scale and pace of action would be needed to meet the interim child poverty targets.
Committee reports
Date published:
20 November 2023
Stage 1 report on the Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Bill - Background to the Bill and the proposed licensing scheme
The policy memorandum clarifies that, in this context, a precautionary approach means taking account of activities which present a risk to carbon storage, alongside considering the role of muirburn as a potential tool to manage wildfire risk.
Committee reports
Date published:
20 November 2023
Stage 1 report on the Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Bill - Different purposes for peatland and non-peatland licences
The Committee understands that the distinction made for burning on peatlands is intended to reflect the risks of undertaking any management activity which may damage this carbon store.
Committee reports
Date published:
25 September 2023
Subordinate legislation considered by the Rural Affairs and Islands Committee on 13 September 2023 - Committee consideration of the instrument
The Committee asked about the potential for operators to be penalised, should they fail to meet the minimum requirements to shoot at night and the possibility this might prohibit them from undertaking other forms of culling because the authorisation provided by NatureScot would cover both activities. In response, the Scottish Government noted that, when Nat...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
22 September 2023
Circular Economy (Scotland) Bill - What is a circular economy?
The circular economy tackles climate change and other global challenges, like biodiversity loss, waste, and pollution, by decoupling economic activity from the consumption of finite resources.
News
Published:
14 September 2023
Committee Urges Government Action to Strengthen Culture in Communities
The Committee also noted that the funding of community-based cultural organisations and projects, local government cultural services, and of publicly owned community spaces where cultural activity can take place have all been put under pressure
The financial constraints within the current economic environment are identified as posing a “significant ch...
Committee reports
Date published:
14 September 2023
Culture in Communities: The challenges and opportunities in delivering a place-based approach - Mapping spaces for culture
Through its work in helping communities create community-led plans, Planning Aid Scotland recognised that “one of the simplest yet most important actions is to understand and co-ordinate the physical assets and cultural activities of a place.” It highlighted that through this process, communities “often discover under-utilised assets” that “can be brought i...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
10 August 2023
Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Bill - Confirmation agents and will writers
Retrieved from <a href="https://www.parliament.scot/-/media/files/legislation/bills/s6-bills/regulation-of-legal-services-scotland-bill/introduced/policy-memorandum-accessible.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.parliament.scot/-/media/files/legislation/bills/s6-bills/regulation-of-legal-services-scotland-bill/introduced/policy-memorandum-accessible.pdf</a> [accessed 8 June 2023]
The Roberton report recommended that any regulation of will-writers should only take place on a voluntary basis and that entities licensed by the newly proposed regulator should be able to undertake confirmation as an activity...
Committee reports
Date published:
16 May 2023
Legislative Consent Memorandum (LCM) on the Powers of Attorney Bill - Interaction with devolved competence
The persons that are listed as being able to certify a copy for the purposes of section 3 are: the donor of the power, a solicitor, a person who is authorised for the purposes of the Legal Services Act 2007 in relation to notarial activity and a stockbroker. Clause 2 would amend section 3 to add Chartered Legal Executives to this list of persons, along with...
Committee reports
Date published:
26 April 2023
Long COVID - Background
Retrieved from <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/bulletins/prevalenceofongoingsymptomsfollowingcoronaviruscovid19infectionintheuk/30march2023" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/bulletins/prevalenceofongoingsymptomsfollowingcoronaviruscovid19infectionintheuk/30march2023</a> [accessed 5 April 2023]
As a proportion of the UK population, the prevalence of self-reported Long COVID is greatest in people aged 35 to 69 years, females, people living in more deprived areas, those working in social care, those aged 16 years and over who were not working and not looking for work, and those with another activity...
