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Property Costs comprise: - £’000 Rates 4,304 Maintenance 3,059 Utilities 1,880 Cleaning 860 Other 166 10,269 Rates, at £4.3m, accounts for 42% of total property costs and is projected to be £268k (6.6%) higher than the 2024-25 original budget bid.
Independent advocacy is vital in ensuring that people are properly supported to access health and social care, and to holding public bodies accountable when people’s human rights are not met.
Does the committee wish to draw the instrument to the attention of the Parliament under reporting ground (j), for failure to comply with laying requirements? Members indicated agreement.
The policy note states that the instrument is required to give legislative effect to the minister’s decision with respect to the outcome of a review of the Commission implementing regulation, which lays down provisions that apply to certain high-risk food and feed commodities of non-animal origin on entry to Great Britain.
There is nothing greater than when people will lay down their lives and their time for the sake of others, and bring peace and hope to our communities.
As he says, the Parliament has agreed legislation that will simplify and modernise the law on defamation, and I am pleased that the Scottish Government expects to lay commencement regulations in early May, which will bring the 2021 act into force this summer.
Prior to the pandemic, the use of the made affirmative procedure for laying Scottish statutory instruments was relatively rare—in single-digit figures per annum—but, since March 2020, we have considered its use on well over 100 occasions.
Although the committee’s expectation is that the Scottish Government should adhere to the 28-day rule in order to facilitate proper parliamentary scrutiny, does it nevertheless wish to note that it is satisfied with the explanation that has been provided for the failure to comply with the laying requirements, given the particular circumstances in this insta...