Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee
The Committee was established in June 2021. It focuses on:
- checking secondary legislation coming before the Parliament for legal and technical accuracy
- checking whether proposed secondary legislation in Bills is appropriate
- reporting its findings to the Parliament so all laws and proposals for laws get proper oversight from MSPs
- looking at certain Bills which are based on reports from the Scottish Law Commission. The Commission recommends changes to the law so it keeps pace with the way we live and work.
Next meeting
8th Meeting, 2021
10:00am, 26 October 2021
T1.40-CR5 The Smith Room
Get in touch
If you want to get in touch, you can contact Andrew Proudfoot on [email protected], the Clerk for the committee.
Address: The Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh, EH99 1SP
Email: [email protected]
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Members
Members of the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee
Current Members
Stuart McMillan
Convener
Party: Scottish National Party
MSP for: Greenock and Inverclyde (Constituency)
Bill Kidd
Deputy Convener
Party: Scottish National Party
MSP for: Glasgow Anniesland (Constituency)
Craig Hoy
Member
Party: Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
MSP for: South Scotland (Region)
Graham Simpson
Member
Party: Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
MSP for: Central Scotland (Region)
Paul Sweeney
Member
Party: Scottish Labour
MSP for: Glasgow (Region)
Substitute Members
Maurice Golden
Substitute Member
Party: Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
MSP for: North East Scotland (Region)
Rhoda Grant
Substitute Member
Party: Scottish Labour
MSP for: Highlands and Islands (Region)
Jenni Minto
Substitute Member
Party: Scottish National Party
MSP for: Argyll and Bute (Constituency)
Committee work
Current
Correspondence
Committee correspondence
Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee
Health Protection Coronavirus Requirements Scotland Amendment No2 Regulations 2021 SSI 2021 349
Letter from Convener to Minister dated 8 October 2021
Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee
Response from Minister for Parliamentary Business to Convener following appearance at Committee
Response from Minister for Parliamentary Business to Convener following appearance at Committee dated 7 October 2021
Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee
Legislative Consent Memorandum Police Crime Sentencing Courts and the Health and Care Bills
Letter from the Convener to the Minister regarding the Legislative Consent Memorandum for the Police Crime Sentencing and Courts Bill and the Health and Care Bill dated 6 October 2021
Remit
To consider and report on the following (and any additional matter added under Rule 6.1.5A)—
- any—
- subordinate legislation laid before the Parliament or requiring the consent of the Parliament under section 9 of the Public Bodies Act 2011
- pension or grants motion as described in Rule 8.11A.1; and, in particular, to determine whether the attention of the Parliament should be drawn to any of the matters mentioned in Rule 10.3.1
- proposed powers to make subordinate legislation in particular Bills or other proposed legislation
- general questions relating to powers to make subordinate legislation
- whether any proposed delegated powers in particular Bills or other legislation should be expressed as a power to make subordinate legislation
- any failure to lay an instrument in accordance with section 28(2), 30(2) or 31 of the 2010 Act
- proposed changes to the procedure to which subordinate legislation laid before the Parliament is subject
- any Scottish Law Commission Bill as defined in Rule 9.17A.1
- any draft proposal for a Scottish Law Commission Bill as defined in that Rule
- any Consolidation Bill as defined in Rule 9.18.1 referred to it in accordance with Rule 9.18.3.