The Census (Scotland) Order 2020 (SSI 2020/draft) was laid in the Parliament on Thursday 23 January 2020.
A link to the Order and its associated documents can be found online at the following link: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2020/9780111043868/contents.
The Committee published its report on the Draft Census Order on Wednesday 4 March 2020. The report can be found at the following link:
https://sp-bpr-en-prod-cdnep.azureedge.net/published/CTEEA/2020/3/4/Census--Scotland--Order-2020--SSI-2020-draft-/CTEEAS052020R1.pdf
The Committee completed its scrutiny of the Draft Census Order on Thursday 27 February 2020. The Parliament agreed to the Census Order on Wednesday 4 March 2020. Accordingly, the Committee’s scrutiny of the Census Order is now complete and the Committee is not accepting any further submissions regarding the Census Order.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Census (Scotland) Regulations 2020
The Census (Scotland) Regulations 2020 were laid in the Scottish Parliament on 7 May 2020 and subject to the negative procedure. The Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee reported on the Regulations, with no points to raise, on 26 May 2020. The Culture, Tourism, Europe and External Affairs Committee had no points to raise and the Regulations came into force on 16 June 2020.
Evidence
12 September 2019
The Committee took evidence from National Records of Scotland on the draft Census Order:
Meeting papers for 12 September 2019:
9 January 2020
The Committee took evidence from National Records of Scotland on the draft Census Order.
30 January 2020
The Committee took evidence from the Scottish Government and National Records of Scotland on the draft Census Order.
27 February 2020
The Committee took evidence from the Scottish Government and National Records of Scotland on the Census (Scotland) Order 2020 (draft). Following the evidence session, the Committee agreed motion S5M-20742 to approve the order.
Correspondence
Correspondence between the Committee and the Scottish Government/the National Records of Scotland:
Other correspondence:
- Letter from Sikhs in Scotland, dated 10 July 2019 (184KB pdf)
- Letter from LGBTI organisations, dated 10 September 2019 (157KB pdf)
- Letter from Susan Sinclair, dated 10 September 2019 (66KB pdf)
- Letter from Dr Kath Murray and Lucy Hunter Blackburn, dated 11 September 2019 (151KB pdf)
- Letter from Murray Blackburn Mackenzie, dated 11 September 2019 (81KB pdf)
- Letter from Social Science researchers, dated 11 September 2019 (98KB pdf)
- Letter from Dr Kevin Guyan on behalf of individual researchers, academics, practitioners and data users, dated 20 September 2019 (100KB pdf)
- Letter from forwomen.scot, dated 27 September 2019 (63KB pdf)
- Letter from LGBTI organisations, dated 1 October 2019 (128KB pdf)
- Letter from the Office for Statistics Regulation, dated 4 October 2019 (77KB pdf)
- Letter from Murray Blackburn Mackenzie, dated 7 October 2019 (71KB pdf)
- Letter from LGB Alliance, dated 26 November 2019 (78KB pdf)
- Letter from Stonewall Scotland, dated 10 December 2019 (376KB pdf)
- Letter from Prof. Alice Sullivan on behalf of individual quantitative social scientists dated 18 December 2019 (182KB pdf)
- Letter from Sikh Federation (UK) dated 10 January 2020 (1.89MB pdf)
- Correspondence from Dr Alf Baird to the Convener of 22 January 2020 (11KB pdf)
- Correspondence from Sikh Federation (UK) of 27 January 2020 (113KB pdf)
- Correspondence from the Network of Sikh Organisations of 31 January 2020 (105KB pdf)
- Correspondence from the Sikh Federation (UK) to the Convener of 13 February 2020 (156KB pdf)
- Correspondence from the Sikh Federation (UK) and Sikhs in Scotland to the Convener of 21 February 2020 (58KB pdf)
- Correspondence from Murray Blackburn Mackenzie of 26 February 2020 (314KB pdf)
- Correspondence from Professor Lindsay Paterson and Professor Susan McVie to the Convener of 4 August 2020 (254KB pdf)
- Correspondence from the Convener to Professor Lindsay Paterson and Professor Susan McVie of 6 August 2020 (115KB pdf)
Contact: [email protected]