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Building standards verification: Much of the Committee’s building standards work over the session has focused on the issue that what gets built quite often does not match the plans that have been approved by building standards verifiers.
Scottish Renewables told the Committee:
the amount of offshore wind capacity awarded to Scottish projects fell across the first three auction rounds...If we are getting only 9 per cent of the projects through from a CfD round, we simply cannot deliver the economic and environmental benefits that this industry wants to deliver for Scotland.EEFW Committee, Of...
A lot more thinking needs to be done to get it fully trauma informed and survivor centred.iiEducation and Skills Committee, Official Report, 7 October 2020, Janine Rennie, Wellbeing Scotland
This is a point echoed by Joanne McMeeking of CELCIS, who notes that—
Emotional support is absolutely critical, particularly for survivors who are considering or making...
Postal voting also raises other challenges, like getting replacement ballot papers out in time if needed and ensuring that individuals are clear on when they must send back their ballot paper for it to be counted.
If the provision is simply a way of allowing ministers more easily to implement changes that they think are desirable, it is quite hard to justify. However, if we get into a situation in which, as a consequence of whatever deal we negotiate for withdrawal, we actually have to keep pace with developments in EU law in certain areas, some kind of keeping-pace ...
However, Police Scotland continued “we are not in the business of giving more time, because—to be quite honest—our performance and getting the response back to the applicant are more key.”5The Scottish Parliament. (2019, November 7).
These included:
the suggestion that the instrument enables a portion of any success fee that forms part of any compensation for future loss to be awarded to the solicitor as a bonus;
the evidence base for a financial incentive being required to get solicitors to take on cases, especially those involving figures of more than £500,000;
the Justice Committee's...
Committee reports
Date published:
20 February 2020
Wendy Sinclair-Gieben said—
we are beginning to recognise that staff should get mental health first aid training and guidance on how to deal with psychoactive substances and the difficulties of excited delirium.
The Committee believes it is sensible that the Scottish Government has ruled out the prospect of internet voting or any proposals for the electronic transmission of voting information.
The Committee did not get the impression that any significant resources were being devoted to electronic voting or that a pilot of new measures to improve accessibility was i...
Committee reports
Date published:
17 December 2019
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Clan Childlaw supported removing all childhood offences from lists:
I do not think that we should be getting...