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Committee reports
Date published:
13 March 2020
Consumer Scotland Bill as amended at Stage 2
Delegated Powers
At its meeting on 10 March 2020 the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee agreed that it was content with the following power in the Consumer Scotland Bill which was the only new power added at Stage 2:
Section 6(3) – specified persons whose activities Consumer Scotland must have regard to
The Committee also reconsidered the power below...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
17 January 2020
Negotiating the future UK and EU relationship - Immigration
Maintaining existing Mode 4 commitments, which have been taken as part of EU trade deals, and agreeing new Mode 4 commitments, as part of a trade deal with the EU and with other countries, would facilitate certain categories of business activity. However, as these arrangements are subject to the outcomes of negotiations with the EU, it is not possible to as...
Committee reports
Date published:
10 November 2019
Empty Homes in Scotland - Measuring the scale of the problem
City of Edinburgh and Perth and Kinross Councils both questioned, however, whether they would be able to actively identify all those households which were failing to disclose their empty status in order to avoid paying the council tax levy.6Local Government and Communities Committee.
Committee reports
Date published:
4 October 2019
Report on Funding of European Union Structural Fund priorities in Scotland, post-Brexit - Replicating the current approach
It considered that the system of SIs and then an operations phase had led to a reduction in third sector involvement and called for “a system of allocating to the local level which ensures that activities across multiple priorities can be supported as part of a larger package.”6Fife Council. (2019, April 25).
Committee reports
Date published:
27 September 2019
The Conservation (Natural Habitats, &c.) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2019 [draft] and the Environmental Protection Act 1990 Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2019 [draft]
Specifically, the instrument has four objectives: to ensure there are offences and penalties in place for the contravention of the prohibitions on the keeping and sale of 13 species identified as of concern (and which cannot be addressed by the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 as they are not considered invasive in Scotland); to ensure there are offences and penalties in place for the contravention of other restrictions under the EU regulation; to make statutory defences for owners of companion animals and commercial stock; and make arrangements for licensing certain restricted activities...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
12 September 2019
Mainstreaming nature - international approaches to biodiversity conservation - Environmental courts - Chile, Kenya and Sweden
Its principal function is to decide appeals from decisions of the national environmental agency on licenses for major developments (such as roads, housing and marine activities). It has powers to confirm, overturn or vary the national environment agency’s decisions.
Committee reports
Date published:
1 September 2019
Key audit themes - Financial leadership
However, when the Committee took evidence from the Accountable Officer at the Scottish Government over a month later, officials were less clear about whether and when such an appointment might be made, indicating that: "There is active progress on that work".7The Scottish Parliament. (2019, January 24).
SPICe briefings
Date published:
26 June 2019
Health and social care integration: spending and performance update - Annex A: Data sources
This includes emergency departments, minor injury units, and other sites that provide emergency department related activity.
Performance data from hospitals are not complete (i.e. there are missing data on admission or other numbers).
Committee reports
Date published:
21 June 2019
Presumption Against Short Periods of Imprisonment (Scotland) Order 2019 - 'Alternatives' to custody
It also supports attendance at group work activities designed to challenge the attitudes and values which support ongoing involvement in offending behaviour.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
30 May 2019
Brexit and veterinary workforce pressures - A perfect storm? - Attracting and retaining migrant vets after Brexit
Of those VSs responding to the survey:
18 per cent are actively looking for work outside the UK;
32 per cent are considering a move back home;
40 per cent think they are now more likely to leave the UK.
