This search includes all content on the Scottish Parliament website, except for Votes and Motions. All Official Reports (what has been said in Parliament) and Questions and Answers are available from 1999. You can refine your search by adding and removing filters.
Retrieved from <a href="https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/files//statistics/rgar/2020/scotlands-population-2020.html#scotland%E2%80%99s_older_population_continues_to_increase" target="_blank">https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/files//statistics/rgar/2020/scotlands-population-2020.html#scotland%E2%80%99s_older_population_continues_to_increase</a> and a declining healthy life expectancy (the number of years one can expect to live in good health)2NRS. (2022...
Retrieved from <a href="http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/113943/1/113943.pdf" target="_blank">http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/113943/1/113943.pdf</a> [accessed 26 January 2022] it is wider in scope than the victim test.
The Scottish Government has also commissioned research to better understand the impacts and potential benefits of carbon border adjustment mechanisms and committed to publish a position in 2022; those companies that have already taken action to reduce GHG emissions from their products or services may be the ones that could potentially benefit.
At the session on the 14 December the Minister for Mental Wellbeing and Social Care highlighted that a number of options for increasing MBU capacity was underway and noted his intention for a public consultation in early 2022. He further advised that the Scottish Government has:
funded an increase in staffing for mother and baby units and have created the m...
The CCPu announced plans to consider measures to ensure new EfW plants are more efficient and how waste infrastructure can be ‘future-proofed’ for carbon capture and storage (CCS).
In its 2021/2022 Programme for Government, the Scottish Government announced that it would review the role of incineration in Scotland's waste hierarchy.
The Cabinet Secretary told the Committee that work to establish an Expert Advisory Group on banning conversion practices was underway to begin in Spring 2022.
The remit of the group will include:
Recommending an agreed definition of conversion practices.
Committee reports
Date published:
21 December 2021
The instrument was laid before the Parliament on 9 December 2021 and came into force on 16 December 2021 (and will remain in force until the end of 16 March 2022). Accordingly, it does not respect the requirement in section 28(2) of the Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 that instruments subject to the negative procedure are laid at l...