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Can the First Minister undertake that the bill will return to the chamber before the summer recess? If he cannot, will the Government publish correspondence and information on what is causing the hold-up between the Scottish Government and the United Kingdom Government?
Forecasts compiled by Consensus Economics show that the UK faces the worst and longest recession in the G7. The Office for Budget Responsibility predicts that we are facing the biggest fall in living standards since records began, due to inflation, and more than three quarters of members of the British Chambers of Commerce say that the UK Tory Brexit deal i...
Under section 28(2) of the Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010, instruments subject to the negative procedure must be laid at least 28 days before they come into force, not counting recess periods of more than four days.?
Under section 28(2) of the Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010, instruments subject to the negative procedure must be laid at least 28 days before they come into force, not counting recess periods of more than four days.
We hope that we will have an update prior to the Christmas recess, before we return in January. It has not been possible to hook up with James Dornan, so that concludes Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body question time.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
12 April 2023
The deadline for lodging a petition necessitates doing so during recess but I will make a statement to Parliament after the Easter recess, subject to agreement of the parliamentary bureau.
For example, unlike the Bank of England for the UK, the SFC is not forecasting a recession for Scotland. Having said that, the SFC’s forecasts for economic growth are broadly in line with other forecasters, as shown in the following chart (where the Bank of England now sits as somewhat of an outlier).Figure 3: Forecasts for Scottish and UK economyThe main d...
We note that it was laid the day before the Minister’s appearance before the Public Bill Committee at Westminster.The Welsh Parliament legislative consent memorandum was laid on 13 July 2021. The Scottish Parliament was in recess during July and August. The Scottish Government lodged its legislative consent memorandum on 25 October 2021.
For most councils, the largest source is the annual Scottish Government grant. Since the 2008 recession, funding has not generally kept pace with inflation.