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SPICe briefings
Date published:
26 July 2019
Anatomy of modern Free Trade Agreements - Free trade agreements (FTAs)
Reality Check: How are Brexit preparations getting on?. Retrieved from <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-45522747" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-45522747</a>
“A radical blueprint for a free trade deal between the UK and the US that would see the NHS opened to foreign competition, a bonfire of consumer and envir...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
5 July 2019
Seafood processing in Scotland: an industry profile - Potential implications for the seafood processing sector
Retrieved from to be added [accessed 6 June 2019]With this reliance on non-UK EEA workers even more pronounced in Scotland than elsewhere in the UK, Scottish processors will need to be particularly alert to changes to the immigration system.
We have been able to get just enough workers to meet our needs, but with 85% of our workers from Eastern Europe and t...
Committee reports
Date published:
22 May 2019
Standing Order rule changes - Members Bills and Committee Bills
In the view of the Committee, a maximum timescale of two years strikes a reasonable balance between being a meaningful improvement on the current rules, without being unduly restrictive (the Scottish Government would need sufficient time to get a Bill ready for introduction).
Thirdly the Committee proposes to remove the rule which allows the Scottish Govern...
Committee reports
Date published:
8 March 2019
The Glasgow School of Art Mackintosh Building: The loss of a national treasure - The Mackintosh building and the Local Community
She explained that the Board thought they were doing so but it is clear from some public feedback that the information was not getting through to everyone.
Glasgow School of Art. (2018).
Committee reports
Date published:
7 March 2019
Stage 1 Report on the Transport (Scotland) Bill - Directions and reporting
The role of operators, in delivering this direction, was raised by David Summers, Highland Council, as a potential gap—
...there is a provision in the bill to allow ministers to instruct local authorities to introduce a smart ticketing scheme, but there is no power to allow local authorities to instruct operators to participate, so the ministerial instruction gets stuck halfway.
Rural Economy and Connectivity Committee 19 September 2018, David Summers, contrib. 52, http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/report.aspx?
Committee reports
Date published:
4 March 2019
Stage 1 Report on the South of Scotland Enterprise Bill - Finance
He said—
...we are looking for additional funding—it must be an addition to what we currently get. It is about having a larger rather than a smaller cake...Secondly, the funding must be sustained.
Committee reports
Date published:
4 March 2019
Stage 1 Report on the Climate Change (Emissions Reduction Targets) (Scotland) Bill - Local Authority Energy Efficiency Discount Schemes
As noted above the 2005 Energy Saving Trust work saw the provision of this type of discount as an additional discount (i.e. a discount in addition to existing CERT offers) that would provide the “nudge” necessary to get certain householders to take action.
Committee reports
Date published:
4 March 2019
Stage 1 Report on the Climate Change (Emissions Reduction Targets) (Scotland) Bill - Parliamentary scrutiny of the draft plans
In evidence on the Climate Change Bill, Jim Densham, representing Scottish Environment LINK, said—
"The problem with the most recent climate change plan is that the amount of time for consideration of the plan was far too short for us and other organisations to get comments in, and for the committee to look at it and the Parliament to give its opinion."
Committee reports
Date published:
6 February 2019
Social Security and In-Work Poverty - Low pay and the labour market
This included a drive to create a living wage nation and, through Fair Start Scotland, providing support to get people back in to work.
Measures to tackle poverty, in and out of work, cut across multiple reserved and devolved policy areas.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
19 December 2018
South of Scotland Enterprise Bill - Financial Memorandum
We took the view that the agency would need two or three years to get to that point..."1Scottish Parliament. (2018, November 28).
