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It is standard to take a power at the end of a Bill to commence those sections of the Bill where provision has not been made in the Bill for commencement.
The rationale for including updated annual targets for these years in the Bill was to allow the transition from the reporting regime of the 2009 Act to the new one (established by the Bill) to occur as soon as possible.
On 7 November 2017, the UK Government introduced the Trade Bill 2017-19 in the UK Parliament. The overarching aim of the Bill is to provide continuity in the trade relations the UK currently enjoys, once the UK has left the EU.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
7 November 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what analysis it has done on Scotland’s climate change targets; whether they are world leading, and, if so, in what way.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
7 November 2018
The Scottish Government introduced the Climate Change (Emissions Reduction Targets) Bill to Parliament on 23 May 2018 in order to raise the ambition of Scotland’s emission reduction targets so that they are in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement.
To ask the Scottish Government what its definition of “sexual characteristics” is in its proposed Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Bill. The Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Bill sets out ‘variations in sex characteristics’...