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SPICe briefings
Date published:
3 September 2020
Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Bill - Power to add Sex to Hate Crime Characteristics
Provision is also included in this Bill for an enabling power to allow the characteristic of sex to be added to the hate crime legislative framework at a later date, after the Bill has passed if this is, for example, recommended by the Working Group.
Committee reports
Date published:
30 June 2020
Supply and demand for medicines - Cost of generics - UK Government price setting powers
Cost of generics - UK Government price setting powers
In 2017, the Health Service Medical Supplies (Costs) Act 2017 gave ministers the power to intervene to control the price of generics when there is insufficient competition. To date those powers have not been used.
Committee reports
Date published:
19 May 2020
Subordinate Legislation Considered by the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee on 19 May 2020 - Annex B
Annex B
Letter to the Presiding Officer dated 5 May 2020
Dear Presiding Officer
THE HOMELESS PERSONS (UNSUITABLE ACCOMMODATION) (SCOTLAND) AMENDMENT ORDER 2020
The Homeless Persons (Unsuitable Accommodation) (Scotland) Amendment Order (UAO), SSI 2020/139 is made by the Scottish Ministers under sections 29(3) and (4) of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987(a) a...
Committee reports
Date published:
10 February 2020
Stage 1 report on the Animals and Wildlife (Penalties, Protections and Powers)(Scotland) Bill - Harming a service animal (‘Scottish Finn’s law’)
The Committee invites the Scottish Government to consider whether there may be merit in examining the issue in relation to assistance animals at a future date.
Committee reports
Date published:
31 October 2019
Stage 1 report on the Referendums (Scotland) Bill - Annex A
Annex A
Glossary
Campaign reporting deadlines: The date by which registered campaigners (designated organisations and permitted participants) must report to the Electoral Commission on how much they spent on their campaign, as well as providing information on donations and loans.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
19 June 2019
Referendums (Scotland) Bill - Lessons from referendums
Lessons from referendums
Since the 1975 referendum on the question of the UK's membership of the European Community, there have been two further nationwide referendums to date. One in 2011, used to address the question of whether elections to the House of Commons should change from first past the post to the alternative vote; the other in 2016 to decide o...
Committee reports
Date published:
18 June 2019
Subordinate legislation considered by the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee on 18 June 2019 - Seed and Propagating Material (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2019 (SSI 2019/190)(Rural Economy and Connectivity)
The instrument also corrects three errors in the Seed and Propagating Material (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (the “2019 Regulations”) identified by the Committee in its report dated 12 March 2019 (12th Report, 20019 (Session 5)).
Committee reports
Date published:
5 June 2019
Stage 2 Report on the Climate Change (Emissions Reduction Targets) (Scotland) Bill - Letter from the Cabinet Secretary for the Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform to the Convener, 2 May 2019
These would, if agreed by the Committee at Stage 2, implement the CCC’s advice by setting a target date of 2045 for net-zero emissions of all greenhouse gases and increasing the levels of the 2030 and 2040 targets to 70% and 90% reductions respectively.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
16 April 2019
The expansion of early learning and childcare - From August 2020
When a funded ELC has been evaluated, either by the Care Inspectorate or the local authority, as bring non-compliant with National Standard criteria, the local authority is required to informe the provider as to:
which National Standard criteria and sub-criteria are not being met
what evidence they have that the criteria is not being met
how the service can improve their practice to meet the criteria
what enhanced improvement support will be available to ensure the quality of provision improves and
the specific review dates...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
9 April 2019
Child poverty in Scotland: forecasting the impact of policy options - Annex A: EUROMOD and project technical details
Specifically, it discusses the potential effects of:
Reducing the starter income tax rate in Scotland from 19% to 0%
Increasing child benefit by £18.45 per week
Changing the child related elements of Universal Credit
The project uses EUROMOD for simulating the tax and benefit rules to produce an estimate of the net income of each household, and of various measures of poverty in 2016/17 (the latest period for which outturn statistics on poverty are available), 2018/19, 2023-24 (the date...
