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The Scottish Government explained that the Home Office updated immigration rules in October 2022 so that “standing for or filling an elected post in local or devolved government is not considered to be employment for the purposes of the immigration rules, and conditions restricting employment do not affect the ability to undertake such activities.”31Home Of...
Thematic evidence sessions
Kinship care
The Committee has been actively examining kinship care for the past two years, looking at the financial and other support available to kinship carers, indicating a sustained focus on this issue.
Committee reports
Date published:
13 November 2023
All determinations that are in force are published on SCTS’s website. Currently, all active determinations are set out in The Criminal Courts Determination 2022, which was published on 30 September 2022 and took effect from 1 October 2022.
Committee reports
Date published:
22 September 2023
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The Minister responded that displacement was an active part of its consideration when it came to engaging with the green freeport sites but stressed that the Scottish Government's policy is about "creating new, high-quality jobs as opposed to moving jobs from one part of the country to another."
They would be subject to a predeparture and day 2 and 8 tests, and must self-isolate when not undertaking this activity.
The DPLR Committee considered SSI 2021/256 at its meeting on 31 August and had no points to raise.
It is also unclear how this spending will be funded, that is whether there will be additional funding for devolved activity in Scotland, or whether UKG will bypass the Barnett process and effectively reduce the devolved budget.
Openness and accessibility must be given both priority and protected status to ensure the active engagement of the citizenry in democratic processes, and to ensure those processes remain as democratic as possible.
Committee reports
Date published:
14 December 2020
On the other hand, a convicted person could be disqualified from a range of activities involving animals.
Some stakeholders, such as Scottish Land & Estates, specified that disqualification should be used under specific circumstances.
Legislative consent for UK Bills
Legislative consent is currently being sought from the Scottish Parliament for various Brexit-related legislation. Recent activity is summarised below.
Trade Bill - a Legislative Consent Memorandum (LCM) for the Trade Bill was lodged by the Scottish Government on 18 August 2020.