Chamber and committees

Public Petitions Committee

Agenda: 08 October 2026

4th Meeting, 2026

Start time: 10:00am

Location: Committee Room 5

Agenda items:

Agenda published: Monday, 05 October 2026 01:54pm

The Committee will decide whether to take items 3 and 4 in private.

The Committee will consider the following new petitions—

PE2214: Officially annually recognise 23rd of August as Wallace Day in honour of Sir William Wallace;

PE2245: Keep the William Wallace letter in Scotland;

PE2232: Ban beehives in public spaces until statutory national safety regulations are in place;

PE2233: Moratorium on planning applications for all hyperscale data centres until their environmental impacts have been fully assessed;

PE2234: Reduce MSP Salaries to the Median Scottish Full-time Income;

PE2236: Transfer administration of mandatory charitable rates relief to independent third sector processes;

PE2237: Create a “stage not age” health and social care and benefit system for people with exceptional complex medical needs; and

PE2238: Automatically remove parental rights upon the conviction of a child sexual/domestic abuse offence.

Papers for this item:

Paper 2 - PE2214 (190KB, pdf) posted 05 October 2026

1 private paper will be discussed during this agenda item

The Committee will decide whether a proposed petition is admissible.

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1 private paper will be discussed during this agenda item

The Committee will consider its work programme.

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1 private paper will be discussed during this agenda item

The Official Report of this meeting has not been published yet.

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