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Business Bulletins during the Summer Recess During the summer recess, the Business Bulletins will be published once a week on each Monday, commencing from Monday 2 July until Monday 3 September 2018, when normal publication will resume.
As a result, there was no time available for formal questions and a response to be issued and received in time for the Committee’s final meeting before the summer recess.
It is appropriate for the Committee to consider this instrument before the recess because an error has been identified in relation to a provision ...
Section 28(2) of the Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 requires that instruments subject to the negative procedure are laid at least 28 days before they come into force (not counting recess periods of more than 4 days). This is known as the ‘28 day rule’.
This report covers the work of the Committee from 12 May 2020 to 24 March 2021, after which the Scottish Parliament goes into the campaign recess period from 25 March to 4 May 2021.
The Scottish Government gave consent during the campaign recess. At the end of the previous session, it was agreed that, during the campaign recess, the Scottish Government would give its consent to UK statutory instruments and then notify the Parliament at the start of session 6.
It was agreed that all papers considered at the meeting should be published. Date of next meeting 9. The next meeting of the Bureau would be at 12 noon on Tuesday 16 April 2020 (to be conducted remotely).
The SFC, like the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) for the UK, now judge that Scotland has entered a recession which will last for six quarters, with a total peak to trough fall in GDP of 1.8%.
The Committee has scheduled consideration of these regulations at our first meeting back after summer recess, on Thursday, 4 September. The UK Government recently announced its intention to change the eligibility criteria for the winter fuel payment.