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SPICe briefings
Date published:
25 July 2024
Intergovernmental activity update Q2 2024 - UK Internal Market Act exclusions
See SPICe blogs for background about the scheme and further information about intergovernmental discussions regarding an exclusion. The Q1 2024 intergovernmental activity update summarised further developments that took place in March 2024.
Committee reports
Date published:
22 April 2024
Stage 1 report on the Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) (Scotland) Bill - Existing law
Requiring this therefore has potential both to be ineffective, and to subject women to further distress by recounting deeply personal and sometimes traumatising experiences.
Certain anti-abortion activities such as handing out leaflets do not breach existing law despite evidence, as set out above, that they can have harmful impacts and represent an invasion...
Committee reports
Date published:
7 February 2024
Delegated powers in the Judicial Factors (Scotland) Bill at Stage 1 - Review of relevant powers
Review of relevant powers
Section 42 – Annual Review
Power conferred on: The Scottish Ministers
Power exercisable by: Regulations made by Scottish statutory instrument
Parliamentary procedure: Negative
Provision
Section 42 places the Accountant of Court under an obligation to publish an annual review detailing the Accountant’s activities in relation to the...
Committee reports
Date published:
24 January 2024
The Anaesthesia Associates and Physician Associates Order 2024 [draft] - Health, Social Care and Sport Committee consideration
Scottish Government officials further argued that investing in the PA and AA workforce would create additional clinical capacity to free up doctors’ time, allowing them to focus on other activities and that this should include supporting doctors in training with the provision of high-quality training opportunities.
Committee reports
Date published:
21 December 2023
Stage 1 Report on Visitor Levy (Scotland) Bill - Types of accommodation covered
He continued, “clearly, concern was expressed that the legislation might unintentionally capture certain activity in a way that was not consistent with the policy intention.
Committee reports
Date published:
21 December 2023
Stage 1 Report on Visitor Levy (Scotland) Bill - Views of local government
meetingId=15518</a> Similarly, Inverclyde Council suggested that the Verity House Agreement allows councils “to have full discretion over the use of the proceeds of any levy, although in practice most, if not all, will use at least some of the proceeds to support tourism related activities.”3Inverclyde Council, written Submission. (2023, September).
Committee reports
Date published:
13 June 2023
Stage 1 Report for Children (Care and Justice) (Scotland) Bill - Sections 12 and 13: Restrictions on reporting
However, they suggested that the Bill could be improved, to—
Provide greater legal certainty about when reporting restrictions begin to apply;
Ensure that children and young people can realise their right to waive their anonymity, without committing a criminal offence;
Allow courts to extend reporting restrictions for child complainers and witnesses – as well as children convicted of a crime;
Remove the Scottish Government's power to dispense with reporting restrictions;
Review the maximum penalty for violating these reporting restrictions, which is currently only £2,500; and
Update reporting restrictions in civil as well as criminal cases which involve children, to bring greater consistency to the law as a whole.Dr Andrew Tickell and Seonaid Stevenson-McCabe written evidence
Together Scotland, Social Work Scotland and CYPCS welcomed the inclusion at Section 12 of the Bill of restrictions on reporting suspected criminal offences involving children, as it "addresses the current gap in the law whereby child accused and victims can legally be identified prior to the commencement of formal criminal proceedings.”Children and Young People's Commissioner for Scotland written evidence
However, the CYPCS similarly called for clarity as to when anonymity protections are triggered before the formal commencement of criminal proceedings, stating—
“Currently, it is not clear when suspicion is crystallised. One approach would be to activate...
Committee reports
Date published:
23 March 2023
New vessels for the Clyde and Hebrides: Arrangements to deliver vessels 801 and 802 - Cancelling the contract
However, the Committee considers that there was scope for Scottish Ministers to have played a more pro-active role in seeking detailed reassurances from both Transport Scotland and CMAL before proceeding with the launch, particularly given it was known that there had been slippage in the project.iiThere was division on this paragraph.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
7 November 2022
Retained EU Law and the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill - The power to revoke or replace
“Burden” is defined as including “amongst other things” –
A financial cost
An administrative inconvenience
An obstacle to trade or innovation
An obstacle to efficiency, productivity or profitability
A sanction (criminal or otherwise) which affects the carrying on of any lawful activity.
The Hansard Society has stated that:
The clause thus imposes what amoun...
Committee reports
Date published:
31 October 2022
Pre-Budget Scrutiny 2023-24: Funding for Culture - Reduced income generation
meeting=13918</a> Dance Base pointed to a decline in paid-for-activity of around 20%, while Community Leisure UK said that its members had reported that return rates had “stagnated at between 70 and 80 per cent of pre-Covid footfall [including in] free-to-access cultural facilities”.4Scottish Parliament. (2022, September 22).
