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Under agenda item 4, we are considering two instruments subject to the negative procedure, on which no points have been raised.

Under agenda item 3, we are considering two instruments subject to the negative procedure. An issue has been raised on the following instrument.

Is the committee content with the explanation that the Scottish Government has provided for this breach of the laying requirements?

Members indicated agreement.

Under agenda item 4, we are considering an instrument not subject to any parliamentary procedure, on which no points have been raised.

Is the committee content with the instrument?

Members indicated agreement.

Under agenda item 2, we are considering three instruments subject to the affirmative procedure. An issue has been raised on the following instrument.

Is the committee content with the instrument?

Members indicated agreement.

The instrument amends the Budget (Scotland) Act 2023. It alters the Scottish Government’s financial allocations for the various purposes for which the Scottish Administration may use resources in the financial year 2023-24.

In correspondence with the Scottish Government, the committee queried aspects of the drafting of three provisions of the instrument. Full details of the committee’s questions and the Scottish Government’s responses have been published online, alongside the agenda for this meeting.

Does the committee wish to draw the instrument to the attention of the Parliament on the general reporting ground, in that, first, regulation 2(b) makes an unnecessary substitution, by replacing the existing figure in section 4(3)(a) of the 2023 act with the same figure; secondly, the amendment made by regulation 3(2)(c)(iv) to purpose 3 in schedule 1 to the act leaves a reference to “programmes” which should be singular; and, thirdly, in the amendments made by regulation 3(2)(i)(ii) and (iv) to purpose 9 in schedule 1, it would be more helpful to the reader if the references to “the organisation”, which are introduced into a provision that refers to various different bodies, were instead expressly to the Scottish Administration?

Members indicated agreement.

Also under this agenda item, no points have been raised on the following instruments.

Also under this agenda item, no points have been raised on the following instrument.