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uuId=151731984 The review established a new three tier structure for formal intergovernmental activity involving Ministers and/or officials from the UK Government and each of the devolved Governments.
This would make it "difficult to restate one part of one section alone in a new Act without taking that provision out of its context and causing potential issues of interpretation."
Committee reports
Date published:
19 December 2025
Some respondents referred in their written evidence to the Scottish Parliament's SPCB Supported Bodies Landscape Review Committee's report, which concluded that new SPCB-supported bodies—such as the proposed Commissioner—should only be created where a clear need is demonstrated.
Committee reports
Date published:
19 December 2025
On balance, therefore, the Committee believes a three-croft limit would provide a fair basis for speeding up the assignation process and freeing up Crofting Commission resources, whilst also providing a check on ‘croft-bagging’ and enabling new entrants to crofting.
Increased Scottish Government investment in culture has had a “positive impact” on confidence and stability in the sector but extra funding may to some degree be being used to help meet ongoing financial pressures, rather than necessarily generating improved cultural outcomes, according to a new report from Scottish Parliament’s Constituti...
Offence of paying for the performance of a sexual act
Criminalising the purchase of sex
Section 1 of the Bill seeks to create a new offence of obtaining or seeking to obtain the performance of a sexual act in return for payment.
Retrieved from https://www.gov.scot/news/awaabs-law-to-come-to-scotland/ [accessed 17 June 2025]
A Scottish Government amendment agreed to would amend existing powers in section 27 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 2001 that allow Scottish Ministers to make regulations regarding repairs to social rented homes.