Meeting of the Parliament
Meeting date: Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Official Report
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Children and Families Bill
The next item of business is consideration of motion S4M-06645, in the name of Aileen Campbell, on the Children and Families Bill, which is United Kingdom legislation.
The motion allows for the provisions in the UK Government’s Children and Families Bill to be extended to Scotland.
The amendments in the UK bill carve Scotland out of the UK-wide statutory adoption register provisions in the Adoption and Children Act 2002. They relate to devolved matters of children and adoption, and they alter the executive competence of the Scottish ministers. For that reason, a legislative consent motion is required.
The proposals in the bill do not affect and indeed are entirely consistent with our plans to establish a national adoption register for Scotland, as provided for in the Children and Young People (Scotland) Bill.
I move,
That the Parliament agrees that the relevant provisions of the Children and Families Bill, introduced in the House of Commons on 4 February 2013, which amend the provisions in the Adoption and Children Act 2002 relating to the establishment of a statutory adoption register for the UK, in so far as these matters fall within the executive competence of the Scottish Ministers, should be considered by the UK Parliament.
The question on the motion will be put at decision time.