Information between 15th April 2024 - 25th April 2024
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Monday 22nd April 2024 2:30 p.m. Scottish Affairs Committee - Oral evidence Subject: Intergovernmental relations: 25 years since the Scotland Act 1998 At 3:00pm: Oral evidence Rt Hon Alistair Carmichael MP - Former Secretary of State for Scotland 2013-15 Rt Hon David Mundell MP - Former Secretary of State for Scotland 2015-19 View calendar |
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Litigation Funding Agreements (Enforceability) Bill [HL]
29 speeches (15,973 words) 2nd reading Monday 15th April 2024 - Lords Chamber Scotland Office |
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Scotland Office: Public Expenditure
Asked by: Owen Thompson (Scottish National Party - Midlothian) Monday 22nd April 2024 Question to the Scotland Office: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what the administration costs of his Department were in each year since his appointment. Answered by Alister Jack - Secretary of State for Scotland The Scotland Office and Office for the Advocate General publish an Annual Report and Accounts which contains the information requested. The latest version can be found at Scotland Office Annual Report 2022-23. Prior year Annual Reports and Accounts for the Scotland Office and Office for the Advocate General are available online or can be obtained from the Library of the House. |
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Scotland Office: Public Expenditure
Asked by: Owen Thompson (Scottish National Party - Midlothian) Monday 22nd April 2024 Question to the Scotland Office: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what the cost to the public purse was of (a) staff and (b) running costs for his Department in financial year 2023-24; and how much he has allocated for 2024-25. Answered by Alister Jack - Secretary of State for Scotland The Scotland Office and Office for the Advocate General are currently in the process of finalising the department’s figures for financial year 2023-24. These figures are subject to external audit and the department’s Annual Report and Accounts for 2023-24 are expected to be available later this year. The budget for the department for financial year 2024-25 as agreed in Spending Review 2021 is £13.354m. |
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Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state Petition Open - 18,351 SignaturesSign this petition Gov Responded - 2 May 2024 16 Oct 2024 closes in 5 months, 1 week Require publishers to leave videogames (and related game assets / features) they have sold to customers in a reasonably working state when support ends, so that no further intervention whatsoever is necessary for the game to function, as a statutory consumer right. |
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The Scotland Act 1998 (Increase of Borrowing Limits) Order 2024 This Order amends the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46) to increase the resources borrowing limit set out in section 67(2) from £1.75 billion to £1,779.351 million, and the capital borrowing limit set out in section 67A(1) from £3 billion to £3,050.316 million. Scotland Office |
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Friday 19th April 2024
Correspondence - Letter from Minister Rutley relating to Ministers with responsibility for the Overseas Territories, dated 04/04/24 Foreign Affairs Sub-Committee on the Overseas Territories Found: Communities Felicity Buchan MP Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Housing and Homeless- ness) Scotland |
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Tuesday 16th April 2024
Oral Evidence - Scottish Government, The Welsh Government, and Northern Ireland Civil Service Devolution Capability in Whitehall - Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee Found: Secondly, going back to the point around the Sewel Convention and legislative consents, the Scotland |
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Apr. 24 2024
Research briefing on Lords stages and amendments Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill 2022-23 Briefing papers Found: 023.1 Lord Offord, Parliamentary Under- Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade and Scotland |
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Tuesday 23rd April 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities Source Page: Intergovernmental Relations Annual Report 2023 Document: (PDF) Found: Office Minister, Lord Offord. |
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Tuesday 23rd April 2024
Chief Economist Directorate Source Page: Scotland's Labour Market Insights: April 2024 Document: Scotland's Labour Market Insights - April 2024 (PDF) Found: Statistics Quarterly ONS Annual Population Survey Regional labour market: headline indicators for Scotland |
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Thursday 18th April 2024
Energy and Climate Change Directorate Source Page: GFIB Industrial Just Transition Leadership Forum minutes: March 2024 Document: GFIB Industrial Just Transition Leadership Forum minutes: March 2024 (webpage) Found: members of the Forum.Members heard that Lord Cameron, parliamentary undersecretary of state at the Scotland |
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Wednesday 17th April 2024
Source Page: Pentland Ferries vessel MV Alfred charter extension: FOI release Document: FOI 202300385570 - Information Released - Annex A (PDF) Found: Thanks, [Redacted] Strategic Communications Manager Transport Scotland Office: [Redacted |
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Scotland's Commissioner Landscape - A Strategic Approach
Friday 19th April 2024 Scotland has seven commissioners accountable to Parliament, with an eighth approved in September 2023 and six more proposed. Due to the rise in the number, and therefore cost, the Finance and Public Administration Committee has begun an inquiry into Scotland's Commissioner Landscape. This briefing provides insight into the Commissioner landscape in Scotland View source webpage Found: Criminal Justice Committee 26 October 2022 Criminal Justice Committee 15 June 2022 Reports by Audit Scotland |