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2024年12月10日 · 'Double jobbing' by MSPs could be outlawed in time for the next election if the Scottish Parliament backs a bill on the matter next week. Dual mandates allowing MSPs to simultaneously sit as MPs or peers will be banned under legislation currently going through Holyrood.. Members are to vote on stage three of the Scottish Elections (Representation and Reform) Bill next week.

2 天之前 · On the day of its release, Sturgeon said she was “committed” to turning its vision for an improved care system into reality. However, five years on the Promise Oversight Board has said objectives set for 2024 “remain unmet”, there was “significant variation” across the country, and the plan dated for 2021-24 has not been fully delivered.

2 天之前 · The cost of a replacement for the ageing Barlinnie prison has soared to almost £1bn. HMP Glasgow will be bigger than the Victorian jail, where overcrowding problems have added to pressures.. In a letter to Holyrood's Justice Committee, cabinet secretary Angela Constance has confirmed that costs have now risen to £998.4m.. The revised price is far higher than the initial £100m estimate or ...

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2 天之前 · Experts have called for the Scottish Government to appoint a national cyber lead or risk a major AI-led data breach. Speaking at Holyrood’s Public Sector Cyber Security West conference in Glasgow, Bill Buchanan, professor of applied cryptography at Edinburgh Napier University, sounded a note of caution on the growing cyber threat …

Scottish Labour’s stunning victory in July should have been the major moment of the year for the party. But instead the bigger story has been that of its fall. A series of unpopular decisions made by Keir Starmer since entering Downing Street has turned the taste of success sour, and the idea of Anas Sarwar becoming the next first minister seems even less likely now than it did in January.

The UK is poised to lead the next great leap in agriculture, with gene-editing technology offering a lifeline to a sector under pressure from climate change and rising costs. But could political division leave Scotland watching from the sidelines ...

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