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The 2017 Act only contains one power in section 3(2) to change the base date for measuring absolute poverty.
The Scottish Government responded that the 2017 Act and the current Bill measure different things in different ways and so the powers required to ensure the legislation can function are also different.
In the Minister for Transport and the Islands’ update letter of 20 February, Mr Yousaf indicated that the current scheduled date of integration of 1 April 2019 would not be achieved.
We also welcome the Scottish Government's commitment, in its letter dated 25 April 2018, to bring forward amendments to clarify its intention regarding advertising consent in SDZs and to remove the reference to disapplying regulations.
Committee reports
Date published:
28 November 2017
The Committee makes the following recommendation to the Rural Economy and Connectivity Committee:
The Committee notes initially that, in its 13th Report of Session 2016-17, the House of Lords Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee has made these recommendations in relation to the powers in clause 31 of the Bill:
“As regards the power to add new persons or descriptions of persons in subsection (1), the memorandum explains that it is needed so as to enable “the list to be kept up-to-date...
I hope that we are starting to build the capital back up so that we have a more buoyant fishery. The initiative to date has been good. When will the scientific analysis be available?
We all need access to Gaelic in our everyday lives, not just on our Hebridean summer holidays. Several submissions to the BBC trust's consultation on BBC Alba and colleagues such as Alasdair Allan who have spoken in the debate this morning have referred to that as "normalisation".
There is also the involvement of many young Norwegians in skiing, sailing and walking, which are far more widely practised in Norway than they are in Scotland.The average Scot regards a holiday as being a short budget flight to the sun.
Table 1.3 on page 5 of the supporting document shows the latest budget that was agreed in the autumn budget revision and the changes that are sought in the spring budget revision.There are two main elements to the revision: increases in mainly non-cash annually managed expenditure budgets of £260 million to match the most up-to-date forecasts, which are off...