There are 87,601 results relating to "Getting the Inactive Active"
Order by
|
Committee reports
Date published:
17 May 2018
Stage 1 Report on the Planning (Scotland) Bill - Part 5: Infrastructure levy
We still need to do a number of things to get the measures absolutely right, so we are asking for the power to introduce a levy even if we would not necessarily to do so at this time.
Committee reports
Date published:
28 April 2017
Stage 1 Report on the Railway Policing (Scotland) Bill - Retaining BTP Scotland officers and staff
r=10871&mode=pdf</a>
Calum Steele of the SPF told the Committee that Police Scotland currently employs officers under different terms and conditions which were retained when the eight legacy forces merged, and that once integration took place, he expected a similar approach to be taken for BTP officers:
I suspect that we will, as happens with all organisations as they evolve, get closer to something that looks and feels similar to everybody, rather than having numbers of people on different elements of entitlement, as is currently the case in the police.12Justice Committee 14 March 2017 [Draft], Calum Steele, contrib. 209, <a href="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/report.aspx?
Committee reports
Date published:
20 April 2017
Subordinate Legislation considered on 18th April 2017
The decision was not reached lightly but the discount rate is an important mechanism for ensuring that where someone is awarded damages for a personal injury which includes future monetary loss, such as loss of earnings, that the award they get is capable of meeting those future needs.
Committee reports
Date published:
3 April 2017
Report on Deer Management in Scotland: Report to the Scottish Government from Scottish Natural Heritage 2016 - Progress - Deer Management Planning
We hope to work with ADMG and the DMGs so that the good practice, which can be clearly demonstrated, can be used as models to encourage the rest of the DMGs to get up to that standard.”vEnvironment, Climate Change and Land Reform Committee, Official Report, 22 November 2016, Col 18
Much of the written evidence to the Committee acknowledges the work of DMGs ...
Committee reports
Date published:
11 March 2026
Instruments considered by the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee during the third quarter of the Parliamentary Year 2025-26
This report—
sets out details of instruments and documents considered by the Committee which were drawn to the attention of the Parliament during the reporting period on one or more of the reporting grounds set out in Standing Orders;
touches briefly on the commitments made by the Scottish Government in response to the Committee’s comments and details any action that has been taken; and
outlines the Committee’s activity...
Committee reports
Date published:
27 February 2026
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee Report on the Draft Climate Change Plan - Individuals and communities as delivery partners, and effective communication and engagement with them
It highlights support provided to 24 Climate Action Hubs to raise awareness and implement initiatives which deliver for local places as evidence of the Scottish Government's work to support communities.ivDraft Climate Change Plan, annex 1, pg 5
The Committee heard from several stakeholders that the Scottish Government should support community climate hubs, with the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh: Air Pollution Working Group and Climate Café proposing a "national fund for community climate hubs," enabling local groups to run initiatives like tool libraries, repair cafés, growing projects, and food waste reduction schemes.vWritten Submission,Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh: Air Pollution Working Group and Climate Café
Across the Committee's public engagement activity...
Committee reports
Date published:
27 February 2026
Options for a legal mechanism for triggering any independence referendum - Annexe A: extract from advisers' briefing
These include:
To whom the right should be afforded (to all sub-units or only to some);
The process by which the right might be triggered (by elections to the legislature; by votes in the legislature (and if so, by simple majority or by super-majority); by some other means, such as a majority vote of citizens in the sub-unit; measures of public opinion);
by what form is the preference for secession to be measured (typically by a referendum in the sub-unit: by simple majority or by super-majority; by the sub-unit only or including votes by the whole nation);
by what form is the preference for secession to be confirmed (by the conclusion of negotiations; by the passage of legislation or constitutional amendment; by a second – confirmatory – referendum on the terms of secession);
what is the role of the national body (to decide if the threshold for support has been met; to decide if the process is fair and valid; to facilitate the referendum and/or its result; to participate actively...
Committee reports
Date published:
23 January 2026
Stage 1 report on the Ecocide (Scotland) Bill - Penalties
She explained that existing powers already allow the police and other agencies to investigate, search and seize assets that were obtained by criminal activity, and that this was why such powers were not replicated in the Bill.
Committee reports
Date published:
24 September 2025
Instruments considered by the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee during the first quarter of the Parliamentary Year 2025-26
This report—
sets out details of instruments considered by the Committee which were drawn to the attention of the Parliament during the reporting period on one or more of the reporting grounds set out in Standing Orders;
touches briefly on the commitments made by the Scottish Government and the Lord President’s Private Office (LPPO) in response to the Committee’s comments and details any action that has been taken; and
outlines the Committee’s activity...
Committee reports
Date published:
9 September 2025
Stage 1 report on the Tertiary Education and Training (Funding and Governance) (Scotland) Bill - Financial sustainability of post-16 education bodies
Given that colleges are undertaking more commercial activity, and indeed being encouraged to do so, the Committee believes that it is essential that colleges understand their responsibilities in the relation to contracts, procurement etc. and that there is appropriate oversight of commercial agreements.
