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Our investigations into the energy and banking markets looked particularly at microbusinesses as consumers and made recommendations for specific remedies to address the issues that they were facing in accessing both finance and an energy supply.
Its new chief executive officer is to be a woman—Debbie Crosbie, who I think will be the only woman heading up a major UK bank. I believe that she was also the first woman to sign a Scottish banknote.
However, information that the Trussell Trust gave out recently says that, compared with a general 15 per cent increase in food bank use, there is a residual 52 per cent increase a year after universal credit has been rolled out.
I saw a presentation from a company called Bartlett’s at an event that I attended with the Royal Bank of Scotland. That company demonstrated how the soil quality of individual fields is analysed in order to get the best yield of potatoes.
The bill says that Scottish ministers should decide when the exit date is and that they have the power to cherry pick what bits of EU legislation they want to adopt into Scots law even after the exit date.
It is appropriate that the staff of the SCS should benefit from the additional holiday for which the St Andrew's Day BankHoliday (Scotland) Act 2007 provides, as is the position for other public servants.
The Committee expressed concern at the slow pace of progress on cybersecurity generally in the UK, noting that consultation on this Bill's measures took place in 2022. The Committee discussed awareness of the importance of cybersecurity for business and public sector bodies, current cyber‑resilience work in Scotland, and international benchmarking.
Committee reports
Date published:
30 September 2025
As the Good Food Nation (Scotland) Act 2022 does not include a single mention of the word drink or alcohol, it is unclear why drink – specifically alcohol – needs to be included in this plan.
Retrieved from https://www.foi.scot/sites/default/files/2022-03/National_Archives_MoU%20%281%29.pdf [accessed 24 March 2025]
The Scottish Information Commissioner must periodically consult the Keeper on the adherence of Scottish public authorities to the section 61 Code of Practice.2Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act. (2002).
Three of the six Bills introduced in the Senedd by the Welsh Government in 2022-2023 were labelled by the LJC Committee as framework.xiSenedd’s Legislation, Justice and Constitution ("LJC") Committee.