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1. Jamie Hepburn (S7M-00268)

Standing Orders Temporary Rule Change

That the Parliament agrees, with effect from 4 June 2026, that Temporary Rule 4, under rule 17.1A, be amended as follows—

(a)    in paragraph 1, for “2 October 2026” substitute “31 January 2027”;

(b)    for “Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee” substitute “Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee”;

(c)    in paragraph 3, for subparagraph (b) substitute:

“(b) policy in relation to the UK’s relationship with the EU;”

(d)    in paragraph 3, for subparagraph (d) substitute:

“(d) any other matter falling within the responsibility of the Scottish Administration relating to devolution, intra-UK and intergovernmental relations; and”

(e)    in paragraph 3, at end insert:

Further details available for S7M-00268

2. Jamie Hepburn (S7M-00269)

Establishment of Committees

That the Parliament shall establish committees of the Parliament as follows—

Name of Committee: Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee

Remit: Set out in Rule 6.4

Number of members: 5

Convenership: The Convener will be a member of the Scottish National Party and the Deputy Convener will be a member of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party.

Duration: For the whole session of the Parliament

Name of Committee: Finance Committee

Remit: Set out in Rule 6.6

Number of members: 7

Convenership: The Convener will be a member of the Scottish National Party and the Deputy Convener will be a member of the Scottish National Party.

Duration: For the whole session of the Parliament

Name of Committee: Public Audit Committee

Remit: Set out in Rule 6.7

Number of members: 5

Convenership: The Convener will be a member of the Scottish Labour Party and the Deputy Convener will be a member of the Scottish National Party.

Duration: For the whole session of the Parliament

Name of Committee: Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee

Remit: Set out in Temporary Rule 4

Number of members: 7

Convenership: The Convener will be a member of the Scottish Green Party and the Deputy Convener will be a member of the Reform UK Party.

Duration: For the whole session of the Parliament

Name of Committee: Equalities and Human Rights Committee

Remit: Set out in Rule 6.9

Number of members: 7

Convenership: The Convener will be a member of the Scottish National Party and the Deputy Convener will be a member of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party.

Duration: For the whole session of the Parliament

Name of Committee: Public Petitions Committee

Remit: Set out in Rule 6.10

Number of members: 5

Convenership: The Convener will be a member of the Scottish Labour Party and the Deputy Convener will be a member of the Scottish National Party.

Duration: For the whole session of the Parliament

Name of Committee: Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee

Remit: Set out in Rule 6.11

Number of members: 5

Convenership: The Convener will be a member of the Scottish National Party and the Deputy Convener will be a member of the Scottish Green Party.

Duration: For the whole session of the Parliament

Name of Committee: Climate Action Committee

Remit: To consider and report on matters within the responsibility of the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Action and Rural Affairs, with the exception of rural affairs.

Number of members: 7

Convenership: The Convener will be a member of the Scottish National Party and the Deputy Convener will be a member of the Scottish Green Party.

Duration: For the whole session of the Parliament

Name of Committee: Criminal Justice Committee

Remit: To consider and report on matters relating to criminal justice falling within the responsibility of the Cabinet Secretary for Justice, and functions of the Lord Advocate other than as head of the systems of criminal prosecution and investigation of deaths in Scotland.

Number of members: 7

Convenership: The Convener will be a member of the Scottish National Party and the Deputy Convener will be a member of the Scottish National Party.

Duration: For the whole session of the Parliament

Name of Committee: Economy, Tourism and Energy Committee

Remit: To consider and report on matters within the responsibility of the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Tourism and Transport, with the exception of transport, on matters relating to public infrastructure, civil contingencies and resilience, and on matters relating to energy and energy consents.

Number of members: 7

Convenership: The Convener will be a member of the Reform UK Party and the Deputy Convener will be a member of the Scottish Labour Party.

Duration: For the whole session of the Parliament

Name of Committee: Education and Gaelic Committee

Remit: To consider and report on matters falling within the responsibility of the Cabinet Secretary for Education, Culture and Gaelic, with the exception of culture, and on matters relating to the Historical Abuse Inquiry, redress and languages.

Number of members: 7

Convenership: The Convener will be a member of the Scottish National Party and the Deputy Convener will be a member of the Scottish Labour Party.

Duration: For the whole session of the Parliament

Name of Committee: Health, Care and Sport Committee

Remit: To consider and report on matters falling within the responsibility of the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Care, and on matters relating to sport.

Number of members: 7

Convenership: The Convener will be a member of the Reform UK Party and the Deputy Convener will be a member of the Scottish National Party.

Duration: For the whole session of the Parliament

Name of Committee: Public Service Reform Committee

Remit: To consider and report on matters within the responsibility of the Cabinet Secretary for Public Service Reform.

Number of members: 7

Convenership: The Convener will be a member of the Scottish National Party and the Deputy Convener will be a member of the Scottish National Party.

Duration: For the whole session of the Parliament

Name of Committee: Rural Affairs Committee

Remit: To consider and report on matters within the responsibility of the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Action and Rural Affairs, with the exception of climate action.

Number of members: 7

Convenership: The Convener will be a member of the Scottish Green Party and the Deputy Convener will be a member of the Scottish Liberal Democrats Party.

Duration: For the whole session of the Parliament

Name of Committee: Social Justice, Housing and Local Government Committee

Remit: To consider and report on matters falling within the responsibility of the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice and Housing, and on matters relating to local government within the responsibility of the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government.

Number of members: 7

Convenership: The Convener will be a member of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party and the Deputy Convener will be a member of the Reform UK Party.

Duration: For the whole session of the Parliament

Name of Committee: Transport Committee

Remit: To consider and report on matters relating to transport within the responsibility of the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Tourism and Transport.

Number of members: 7

Convenership: The Convener will be a member of the Scottish Liberal Democrats Party and the Deputy Convener will be a member of the Scottish National Party.

Duration: For the whole session of the Parliament

Further details available for S7M-00269

3. Jamie Hepburn (S7M-00270)

Names and Remits of Mandatory Committees

That the Parliament agrees, under Rule 6.1.5A, that the names and remits of the following mandatory committees be amended—

Name of Committee: Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee

Remit: To the remit set out in Rule 6.4 shall be added—

Matters falling within the responsibility of the Minister for Parliamentary Business and Veterans.

Name of Committee: Finance Committee

New name: Finance and Public Administration Committee

Remit: To the remit set out in Rule 6.6 shall be added—

Any other matter falling within the responsibility of the Scottish Administration relating to the National Performance Framework, public inquiries, and public administration; and proposals for the formation and budgets of officeholders established by the Parliament.

Name of Committee: Public Audit Committee

Remit: To the remit set out in Rule 6.7 shall be added—

Matters relating to the performance of officeholders established by the Parliament.

Name of Committee: Equalities and Human Rights Committee

New name: Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee

Remit: To the remit set out in Rule 6.9 shall be added—

Further details available for S7M-00270

4. Jamie Hepburn (S7M-00273)

Election of Committee Conveners

That the Parliament agrees, under Rule 12.1.2C, that:

(a)  elections of conveners of subject and mandatory committees will take place on Tuesday 9 June 2026;

(b)  that the location of elections will be Committee Room 5 (the Smith Room); and

(c)  that the voting period of elections will commence immediately after Time for Reflection and conclude at 7pm.

Further details available for S7M-00273

1. Marie McNair (S7O-00010)

To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to curb vaping among young people.

Official Report available for S7O-00010

2. David Barratt (S7O-00011)

To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to bring forward the delivery of a new Lochgelly Health Centre before 2031.

Official Report available for S7O-00011

3. Patrick Harvie (S7O-00012)

To ask the Scottish Government how it plans to address harm caused by disinformation and conspiracy theories, including climate denial propaganda.

Official Report available for S7O-00012

4. Maggie Chapman (S7O-00013)

To ask the Scottish Government what action it will take to address reported concerns that implementing recent Equalities and Human Rights Commission guidance on single sex spaces will put at increased risk both transgender people and cisgender people who present in gender non-conforming ways.

Official Report available for S7O-00013

5. Clare Haughey (S7O-00014)

To ask the Scottish Government how it will support Police Scotland and local authorities to tackle youth disorder over the summer months.

Official Report available for S7O-00014

6. Stephen Kerr (S7O-00015)

To ask the Scottish Government what actions it will take to help ensure clear and transparent sentencing.

Official Report available for S7O-00015

7. Alan Brown (S7O-00016)

To ask the Scottish Government what recent assessment it has made of future journey times on cross-border services between Scotland and London once HS2 is operational, including how passenger service and demand will be affected.

Official Report available for S7O-00016

8. Laura Moodie (S7O-00017)

To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with Stagecoach regarding the reported ongoing punctuality and cancellation issues affecting the X74 service between Dumfries and Glasgow, including what steps are being taken to ensure value for money when services fall below acceptable reliability standards.

Official Report available for S7O-00017

9. Michael Marra (S7O-00018)

To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on whether there should be parity of access to justice for all former patients affected by the actions of Sam Eljamel, regardless of whether treatment was received through NHS Tayside or privately.

Official Report available for S7O-00018

10. Ariane Burgess (S7O-00019)

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the reported growing number of people swimming in Scotland's open waters, what consideration it is giving to introducing legislation equivalent to the Clean Water Bill that is being brought forward by the UK Government.

Official Report available for S7O-00019

1. Malcolm Offord (S7F-00006)

Question to be taken in Chamber.

2. Anas Sarwar (S7F-00007)

Question to be taken in Chamber.

3. Ross Greer (S7F-00008)

Question to be taken in Chamber.

4. Russell Findlay (S7F-00009)

Question to be taken in Chamber.

5. Alex Cole-Hamilton (S7F-00010)

Question to be taken in Chamber.

1. Jenny Gilruth (S7M-00249)

Wealth Taxation for Public Services

That the Parliament believes in fair, progressive and sustainable taxation to support the delivery of public services; welcomes the progress made towards the creation of a private jet tax and a mansion tax; supports actions to go further and seek the powers necessary to take action on so-called ghost flights of private planes; recognises that Scotland’s current powers limit the scope for additional wealth taxation, and endorses the Scottish Government’s plans to explore what further steps could be taken either within the current system or with full fiscal powers.

Further details available for S7M-00249

2. Kim Schmulian (S7M-00249.2)

Wealth Taxation for Public Services

As an amendment to motion S7M-00249 in the name of Jenny Gilruth (Wealth Taxation for Public Services), leave out from “believes" to end and insert “notes the data published by HMRC and research by the Institute for Fiscal Studies, which show that each 1% increase in income tax results in a 0.77% reduction in tax revenue; believes that this acts as a disincentive to growth and contributes to economic stagnation and loss of opportunities for everyone; further believes that increasing taxation for some people has a wider impact on everyone; considers that evidence suggesting that, in retrospect, increases in wealth taxes can lead to a significant flight of tax revenues, contradicts previous assessments by the Scottish Fiscal Commission (SFC) that increasing taxation would result in only a minimal flight of tax revenue, and calls on the SFC to review its approach to modelling of using contradictory real data against its hypothetical forecasts." 

Further details available for S7M-00249.2

3. Michael Marra (S7M-00249.4)

Wealth Taxation for Public Services

As an amendment to motion S7M-00249 in the name of Jenny Gilruth (Wealth Taxation for Public Services), insert at end "; notes that the Scottish Government’s Medium Term Financial Strategy, published in June 2025, projected a funding gap of over £4.7 billion by 2029-30; considers that developing a sustainable plan to close this gap is essential to Scotland’s public services and that it is incumbent on all parties in the Parliament to work towards this goal; believes that, to this end, the Scottish Government should take a strategic approach across all devolved taxation in Scotland to include an immediate and comprehensive review of business rates, including consideration of measures such as widening the scope of Fresh Start relief to include businesses that occupy an empty unit within six months of the unit becoming vacant, and further believes that the Scottish Government should convene cross-party talks on council tax reform immediately."  

Further details available for S7M-00249.4

4. Patrick Harvie (S7M-00249.1)

Wealth Taxation for Public Services

As an amendment to motion S7M-00249 in the name of Jenny Gilruth (Wealth Taxation for Public Services), insert at end "; recognises that significant scope exists for further action within devolved powers, such as surcharges within the non-domestic rates system; further recognises that political support has grown for a so-called Amazon tax, as proposed in both the 2026 Scottish Green Party and Scottish National Party manifestos, and believes that progressive reform of property tax could play a powerful role in wealth taxation, and that the Scottish Government must not allow council tax valuations to reach the milestone of being 40 years out of date by the end of the current parliamentary session.”

Further details available for S7M-00249.1

5. Craig Hoy (S7M-00249.3)

Wealth Taxation for Public Services

As an amendment to motion S7M-00249 in the name of Jenny Gilruth (Wealth Taxation for Public Services),  leave out from “, progressive” to end and insert "and low taxation, which incentivises work and investment; rejects the left-wing ‘Holyrood’ consensus, which believes that Scotland can tax its way to economic growth; calls on the Scottish Government to use its existing devolved taxation powers to reduce income tax to stimulate growth, and rules out any further devolution of fiscal powers, which have already created a damaging tax differential, which undermines Scotland's ability to retain and attract high earners and wealth creators.”

Further details available for S7M-00249.3

6. Willie Rennie (S7M-00249.5)

Wealth Taxation for Public Services

As an amendment to motion S7M-00249 in the name of Jenny Gilruth (Wealth Taxation for Public Services), leave out from “welcomes” to end and insert “notes that fair taxation must recognise the current cost of living crisis and the impact that any tax increases can have on individuals and businesses; believes that the Scottish Government must prioritise getting Scotland’s finances in order, in light of warnings by the Institute of Fiscal Studies that it faces a 'fiscal reckoning'; considers that taxpayers in Scotland deserve value for money as well as confidence that their taxes are being spent wisely, and believes that the trust that taxpayers should have in a government to spend wisely has been lost over the last 19 years of an SNP administration.”

Further details available for S7M-00249.5