Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee
33rd Meeting, 2025
The Committee agreed that its consideration of the Report at stage 1 of the Desecration of War Memorials (Scotland) Bill should be taken in private at a future meeting.
The Committee considered the Bill at Stage 2.
The following amendments were agreed to (without division): 6, 7, 1, 10, 2 and 12
The following amendment was disagreed to (by division): 13 (For 1, Against 5, Abstentions 0)
The following amendments were moved and, no member having objected, withdrawn: 3, 5 and 8
The following amendments were not moved: 4, 9 and 11
The following provisions were agreed to without amendment: sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, schedule 1, section 6, schedule 2, sections 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, schedule 4, sections 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 38, 40 and the long title.
The following provisions were agreed to as amended: section 12, schedule 3, sections 37 and 39
The Committee took evidence from—
Professor Aoife O’Donoghue, School of Law, Queen’s University Belfast;
Professor Nikos Skoutaris, Professor of European Constitutional Law, University of East Anglia;
Dr Lea Raible, School of Law, University of Glasgow;
Professor André Lecours, Professor of Political Studies, University of Ottawa;
Professor Ailsa Henderson, Professor of Political Science, University of Edinburgh.