Scottish Parliament Business: Wednesday 26 February 2020
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In Plenary
2:00pm: Parliamentary Bureau Motions
2:00pm: Ministerial Statement: Modernising and Empowering Scotland’s Inshore Fisheries
Portfolio Questions
Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party Debate: Police Scotland Underfunded in Draft Budget
Business Motions
Parliamentary Bureau Motions
5:00pm: Decision Time
Members' Business – Jenny Gilruth: National Parent Forum of Scotland’s 10th Anniversary
In Committee
Local Government and Communities Committee (9:00am, James Clerk Maxwell Room)
Subordinate legislation: The Energy Efficiency (Domestic Private Rented Property) (Scotland) Regulations 2020 [draft]
Witnesses: Kevin Stewart, Minister for Local Government, Housing and Planning, Karen Major, Private Rented Sector Regulations, and Norman Macleod, Senior Principal Legal Officer, Scottish Government
Subordinate legislation: Minister for Local Government, Housing and Planning to move that the Committee recommends that the Energy Efficiency (Domestic Private Rented Property) (Scotland) Regulations 2020 [draft] be approved
Building regulations and fire safety in Scotland – Emphasis on the issue of 'zero valued homes'
Witnesses: Phil Diamond, Chartered Building Surveyor, Diamond and Co; Matthew Jupp, Principal, UK Finance; Keith Denholm, Director at Allied Surveyors, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors; Brian Smith, Partner with Simpson & Marwick Solicitors, Law Society of Scotland and Derek MacDonald, Joint Managing Director of Newton Property Management, Property Managers Association Scotland.
Finance and Constitution Committee (10:00am, David Livingstone Room)
Subordinate legislation: Committee will take evidence on the Revenue Scotland and Tax Powers Act 2014 Amendment Regulations 2020 [draft]
Witnesses: Ben Macpherson, Minister for Public Finance and Migration, and Ewan Cameron-Nielsen, Team Leader, Fully Devolved Taxes Policy Unit, Scottish Government
Subordinate legislation: Ben Macpherson, Minister for Public Finance and Migration to move that the Committee recommends that the Revenue Scotland and Tax Powers Act 2014 Amendment Regulations 2020 (draft) be approved
Subordinate legislation: Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (Tax Rates and Tax Bands) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2020
Witnesses: Ben Macpherson, Minister for Public Finance and Migration, and James McLellan, Head of Fully Devolved Taxes Policy Unit, Scottish Government
Subordinate legislation: Ben Macpherson move that the Committee recommends that the Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (Tax Rates and Tax Bands) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2020 (SSI 2020/24) be approved
