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SPICe briefings
Date published:
12 September 2019
Mainstreaming nature - international approaches to biodiversity conservation - Game bird licensing - Sweden, Spain and France
Hunting licence fees in Norway and Germany are similarly ring-fenced and paid into designated ‘wildlife funds’. To get a hunting licence hunters must hold insurance and pass the Swedish hunting exam - the licence can be revoked if the licensee breaches regulations.
Committee reports
Date published:
12 June 2019
Social Security Support for Housing - Local Housing Allowance and the cost of renting
r=12033&c=2166054And Beth Reid, Crisis said—
We have done some analysis of the affordability of properties within the LHA rate across Scotland and found that, in 15 of the 18 broad rental market areas in Scotland, there is a monthly shortfall between the amount that LHA tenants can get and the amount that they pay.
Social Security Committee 25 April 201...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
16 April 2019
The expansion of early learning and childcare - Partner provider access to capital funding
Retrieved from <a href="https://parliament.scot/S5_Education/General%20Documents/20181029Focus_group_notes_Rutherglen.pdf" target="_blank">https://parliament.scot/S5_Education/General%20Documents/20181029Focus_group_notes_Rutherglen.pdf</a> [accessed 25 February 2019] Group participants: "queried the extent to which the private providers are getting access to capital funding."2Education and Skills Committee. (2018, November 2).
Committee reports
Date published:
4 March 2019
Stage 1 Report on the Climate Change (Emissions Reduction Targets) (Scotland) Bill - Climate Justice
The phrase that I have used is that our sticky fingers are all over climate change, because right from the get-go we were beneficiaries of it, although arguably the vast majority of the population did not benefit massively from the industrial revolution—a small number of fairly wealthy people benefited fairly massively.
Committee reports
Date published:
31 January 2019
Stage 1 Report on the Management of Offenders (Scotland) Bill - Clarity on the need to disclose convictions
In road traffic cases, people are never admonished for speeding or for driving without insurance—they always get a financial penalty. Some employers might be less concerned about someone who drove once without insurance than about someone who was admonished for assaulting a person in a bar or being involved in an offence of dishonesty.
Committee reports
Date published:
26 November 2018
Stage 1 report on the Health and Care (Staffing) (Scotland) Bill - Assurance
For patients and service users, we would want to work with people to get something that is meaningful and practical and makes a difference
A further area we considered where clarity may be required is around assurance.
Committee reports
Date published:
8 November 2018
Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2016 (Register of Persons Holding a Controlled Interest in Land) (Scotland) Regulations 2021 [draft] - Recorded Person's Name and Address
Official Report, 2 October 2018, Col 17. stated—
My understanding is that one of the things that this register is intended to do is to enable someone who is interested in finding the person who has a controlling interest in a property to get in touch with that person. For me, that clearly means that there must be contact details of some kind.
Committee reports
Date published:
29 March 2018
Report on petition PE1463: Effective thyroid and adrenal testing, diagnosis and treatment (revised on 20 July 2018 to update glossary) - Clinical studies
Calls for further research into alternative treatments for patients
Elaine Smith MSP summed up the concerns of the petitioners’ and wider patient body in evidence to the Committee on 1 December 2015: “To me, the bottom line is that a lot of patients in Scotland are not getting the right treatment…More research needs to be done to show what is happening.”iP...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
20 March 2018
The impact of Brexit on Scotland's growth sectors - Box: Renewable Energy
This seems to be holding up at the moment but getting data at a Scottish level has proven difficult, and investment attractiveness has fluctuated.
Committee reports
Date published:
1 February 2018
Technology and innovation in health and social care - Lack of scaling up
The Royal College of GPs Scotland commented it is often the case best practice is not developed and adopted across the board whilst Community Pharmacy Scotland advised innovative projects do not often get scaled up beyond board level despite being clearly suitable for national roll out.RCGP Scotland and Community Pharmacy Scotland written submissions
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