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Scottish Building Safety Levy Bill Summary of responses to the Committee’s call for views The Committee published its call for views on 26 June 2025, and received 39 responses before this closed on 15 August.
The meeting confirmed that 19 of the 26 recommendations and advisory points have now been implemented – a table is provided in the annex to this letter that provides an update on each point.
The Committee notes that the Deputy First Minister indicated that he "would be happy to consider" a child rights and wellbeing impact assessment on the issue of armed forces visits to schools. The Committee recommends that the Scottish Government carries out a child rights and wellbeing assessment in relation to armed forces visits to schools to ensure that:
content provided across all visit types is appropriate for the agreed purpose of a visit and the age group of those participating; and
information resources are available which allow a balance of views, as called for in the petition, to be addressed.
Mental Health (Cross-border Visits) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2017 [draft]
The Committee reports to the Parliament as follows-
The Mental Health (Cross-border Visits) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2017 [draft] was laid before the Parliament on 15 May 2017 and referred to the Health and Sport Committee.
The difficulties are that the vessels are new ones for a yard that has been building up its workforce and is a relatively recently re-established business.