The Rural Affairs and Islands Committee is carrying out scrutiny on the draft Good Food Nation (Specified Functions and Descriptions) (Scottish Ministers) Regulations 2025 on 3 December 2025.
The Good Food Nation (Scotland) Act 2021 sets out that:
The draft regulations set out the Scottish Government’s proposals for the specified functions or specified description.
The draft national good food nation plan was laid on 27 June 2025 and must be finalised by the end of December. These regulations will come into effect on 23 December, in time for the finalised plan to be published.
Read the draft good food nation plan
The Scottish Government consulted on the draft specified functions and descriptions between January and April 2024 and then published an analysis of responses to the consultation.
The Committee held a call for views to inform its scrutiny of the the Good Food Nation (Specified Functions and Descriptions) (Scottish Ministers) Regulations 2025.
The call for views closed on 21 November 2025.
The Committee has sent and received the following correspondence during the inquiry:
Letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs, Land Reform and Islands, 25 November 2025
Letter to the Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs, Land Reform and Islands, 10 November 2025