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Part 3 (National Parks) – introduces a number of amendments to current national parks legislation to amend the statutory aims of National Parks, creates a duty for public bodies to facilitate the implementation of National Park Plans, as well as confers new regulation-making powers on Scottish Ministers to develop a fixed-penalty notice regime for National ...
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Committee reports
Date published:
26 September 2025
The Committee welcomes the Scottish Government’s commitment to ongoing consultation and improvement, including through the establishment of the Implementation Advisory Group and the recent procurement of a new Contact Scotland BSL service provider.
Committee reports
Date published:
24 September 2025
Role of the Scottish Food Commission
The Good Food Nation Act establishes a new Scottish Food Commission (SFC) to support, advise and improve the efforts of Scottish Ministers and relevant authorities towards becoming a Good Food Nation.
Throughout the development of her policy, the Member has engaged extensively with representatives of these groups and communities, and it remains her preference to keep the scope of the new offence limited to war memorials.
Firstly, that the Principal Reporter has an enhanced role within it, and secondly, sets out new processes where:
the child is not capable of understanding the ground
the child is deemed capable of understanding the grounds and
is not in attendance at their hearing
is in attendance at their hearing.
Three more planned frameworks that apply to Scotland – the Zootechnics Framework, the Mutual Recognition of Professional Qualifications Framework, and the Services Directive Framework – remain unpublished.
No new framework agreements applicable to Scotland were published during the reporting period.
It states: “The Scottish Government welcomes the intention of the new UK Government to address the lack of a negotiated and bargaining financial renumeration mechanism in social care.