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No one is suggesting for a moment that there are not genuine cases of holiday sickness—there are—but it is important that we deal with those cases as quickly as we can.
Executive Summary
The Children (Care and Justice) (Scotland) Bill was introduced on 13 December 2022. The Education, Children and Young People Committee is the designated lead committee and will be looking at the Bill alongside the Criminal Justice Committee.
The new set of regulations with the corrected text would presumably have come into force on the same date as the date for the coming into force of the regulations that we are discussing.
It is clear that they have to give their name, address and date of birth. Section 5 of the bill sets out the information that is to be given to suspects, but I have to say that I cannot see how it will improve the situation.
There is a concern that removing the exemption of licences from LBTT will accidentally sweep into LBTT all sorts of things that to date have not been covered by SDLT. I gave my example to ask whether that is what is intended.