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SPICe briefings
Date published:
27 March 2020
Revised UK Agriculture Bill 2020
Scottish MPs raised that they felt the Bill was straying into areas of devolved competence;
the need for new measures of success for agriculture beyond yield;
the lack of provision for farm advice in the Bill, to support farmers to make the transition;
a lack of vision to protect rural communities;
a lack of provision to protect agricultural workers;
Environment:
the need to maintain food production abroad so not to risk offshoring the UK's environmental impact;
disappointment that the Bill is not clearer about financially rewarding a transition to 'agroecology', or a whole-farm approach to agriculture with the environment at its core;
the need to enshrine baseline environmental standards that all farmers should adhere to, whether in receipt of funding or not, and the lack of provision for this in the Bill;
that the Bill is not ambitious enough about climate change or the environment by banning the most damaging practices and taking on board best...
Committee reports
Date published:
19 November 2019
Report on STEM in early years education
The Committee has heard about the barriers to success for these initiatives and also explored how best practice can be shared.
The Committee held an evidence session on 27 March 2019 to discuss the possible focus of a STEM inquiry.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
25 May 2022
Social Work in Scotland
The children's hearing is a multi-agency legal meeting where decisions are made in the best interests of the child or young person and can include compulsory measures of care, for example, setting out where a child must live.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
5 April 2019
EU Emissions Trading System
Despite this, Sandbag argue that the best outcome for international climate action would be for the UK to remain in the EU ETS post-Brexit.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
28 November 2023
Scottish Parliament Statistics 2021-2022
The rules state:
There are to be at least 3 but no more than 6 Fund trustees;
The Scottish Parliament may resolve to appoint as a Fund trustee any individual nominated by the SPCB as suitable to hold that office;
The SPCB must, when deciding who to nominate—
(a) do its best to ensure that the Fund trustees include a participating member and a scheme pension...
Committee reports
Date published:
29 May 2019
Report on the 2016/17 and 2017/18 Audits of NHS Tayside
That is a matter for the auditors of the endowment fund and, indeed, the fund’s trustees, who have specific responsibilities under the charities regulations for acting in the fund’s best interests.
Public Audit and Post-legislative Scrutiny Committee 19 April 2018, Caroline Gardner, contrib. 22, http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/report...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
19 August 2019
Wild Salmon
In response to the development of these fisheries in the 1970s and the decline in abundance of salmon in homewaters, the North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organisation (NASCO) was set up in 1984 with the primary objective to contribute to the conservation, restoration, enhancement, and rational management of salmon stocks, based on the best scientific advi...
