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In 80 per cent of cases in which someone is stopped, nothing is found. But that compares extremely well to the situation in the rest of the United Kingdom, and it is a huge improvement on last year.
That process seems to have worked satisfactorily—I hope that it has from your point of view. You will be doing comparable things as regards the competences of the Scottish Parliament, and that heavy procedure would seem to be appropriate for such important issues.
The care that someone will be provided will be very different in rural Aberdeenshire or the Highlands and Islands compared to urban Glasgow and Edinburgh.
Citizens Advice Scotland recorded that 79 per cent of people on universal credit were in arrears, compared to 29 per cent of the other people it deals with.
Committee reports
Date published:
24 February 2026
Introduction
This report sets out the Health, Social Care and Sport Committee's consideration of the following Scottish Statutory Instrument (SSI) at its meeting on 17 February 2026 - The Care Home Services (Visits to and by Care Home Residents) (Scotland) Regulations 2026 [draft].
During the course of this work the Committee noted that the Code of Conduct did not cover MSPs' conduct towards the treatment of individuals who do not fall in to certain categories – constituents and people visiting the Parliament for example.
The Committee agreed to update the rules in the Code of Conduct to ensure that MSPs must not behave in a manner to...
In practice this began with a number of visits in Raploch in August 2016, when the Committee met a number of students, young people involved in skills development projects, care-experienced individuals, school children, parents, teachers, academics and others.