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Because the Justice and Home Affairs Committee is likely to start with part 1 on 19 January, we should get our proposals in before that date. Therefore, we should decide on them at this meeting.
Under RSA priority, businesses with projects qualifying for RSA are able to secure £3,000 additional grant for each new job filled, but within the overall maximum EU limits. As I mentioned, to date, uptake has been good and broadly as expected.
Lord Johnston then ordered that the petition be formally served and allowed seven days for the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body to lodge answers. A date for the hearing of legal arguments is to be fixed.Lord Johnston expressed the hope that no matters of substance would be considered by the committee in private this morning.
Although the book town project understandably draws to some extent on best practice elsewhere—notably, as has been mentioned, in Hay-on-Wye, whose designation as a book town dates back to 1961—many of those who are involved in Wigtown have been keen to emphasise their commitment to making the book town a place for Scottish authors and booklovers: a literary...
I hope that the committee will agree to discuss at an early date the introduction of a bill to amend the Matrimonial Homes (Family Protection) (Scotland) Act 1981.
At this stage, however, I post my concern about the very short gap between the completion of stage 2 and the proposed date for the start of stage 3, which I understand to be 17 June.
Amendment 11 provides that the register that is maintained by the public guardian must be updated when the authority of the withdrawer is suspended or terminated.Amendment 12 provides that the public guardian may specify a time limit for the validity of certificates of authority to provide information about funds, open a bank account and transfer specified ...
Regulations will be laid before Parliament in due course, but in the meantime amendment 441 will, for consistency, remove from the bill a provision that deals with registered European lawyers.Amendment 443 is consequential to the proposed repeal of section 38 of the 1980 act, which gives the Law Society of Scotland powers to obtain documents and freeze bank...
I welcome several of the initiatives that have been made by some of the utility companies, but I want there to be more direct targeting of subsidies to those who are in most danger because they live in fuel poverty.For far too long, public limited companies have discriminated in favour of those who are economically active and who have the most disposable income. That is true of banks and many other PLCs. Here is an opportunity for our utility companies to set an example by discriminating in favour of those who are most at risk because they live in fuel poverty.