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But there were significant gaps in available support and the pandemic led to delays in delivering the Scottish Government’s planned social security programme.The key challenge for the incoming Scottish Government will undoubtedly be to ensure that all powers at its disposal are used to ensure Scotland is able to recover from the unprecedented recession caus...
This section requires that negative instruments are laid at least 28 days before they come into force, not counting recess periods of more than 4 days. This instrument was laid on 13 January 2021 and comes into force on 31 January.The Committee agrees to draw the instrument to the attention of the Parliament under reporting ground (j) on the basis that it h...
Background BackgroundIn its broadest sense, green recovery seeks to achieve the dual aims of lifting an economy out of recession - and a society out of a crisis - whilst also protecting and improving the environment.
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17 September 2019
When this Order was made on 1 August 2019, communication of this was made to the Convener of the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee.iThe full text of this letter can be found here. As this was during the summer recess, no formal consideration of the instrument could take place.
I will update the Parliament further on that progress before summer recess, and I visited St Mary’s earlier this month to hear directly about the centre’s improvement journey.
Creative Scotland (Funding) Following warnings that Scotland faces a “cultural recession”, it was reported that Creative Scotland and the Scottish Government were in talks over the immediate future of arts organisations.
Two days later—funnily enough, once we had all exited the building for the summer recess—and guess what? Delays were announced and—I give a spoiler alert to colleagues—the ship is still to be handed over to CalMac, and it is nearly October.
Will the First Minister commit to ensuring that the Parliament will have time to scrutinise it before summer recess? Will it still contain the presumption against new oil and gas that was consulted on?