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Last updated: 7 January 2026

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Section 33B requires that Scottish Ministers must, within 12 months beginning with the day after Royal Assent, introduce regulations under Section 1 of the 2003 Act to make provision for the installation of an average of one integral swift nest box per dwelling or unit greater than five metres in height and in accordance with “best practice guidance except ...

Last updated: 7 January 2026

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Section 33B requires that Scottish Ministers must, within 12 months beginning with the day after Royal Assent, introduce regulations under Section 1 of the 2003 Act to make provision for the installation of an average of one integral swift nest box per dwelling or unit greater than five metres in height and in accordance with “best practice guidance except ...

Last updated: 22 October 2025

20251016_Land Reform Bill Stage 3 Letter to DPLR Committee from CS RALRI

The Bill moves from fixed lists to illustrative lists, except for improvements that require neither consent nor notice (that is, improvements with only a modest impact on the holding).

Last updated: 5 February 2025

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S6M-16330.3 Pam Duncan-Glancy: Addressing Child Poverty Through Education—As an amendment to motion S6M-16330 in the name of Jenny Gilruth (Addressing Child Poverty Through Education), leave out from ", which is" to end and insert "; commends Scotland’s teachers and schools for their work; notes that the poverty-related attainment gap has not improved in P1 and is the widest it has ever been at Higher level; further notes that the Scottish Government’s failure to plan for the school workforce has meant that teachers are often overworked and children are unsupported; expresses its disappointment at what it sees as the Scottish National Party’s broken promise of rolling out free school meals to all P6 and P7 pupils; believes that education should set young people on the path to opportunities for their future and can help lift people out of poverty; understands that 'Scotland’s colleges play a particularly important role in supporting learners from more deprived communities to access learning', as described by Audit Scotland, but that the 'financial health of the sector has deteriorated since 2021-22'; welcomes that 100,000 people in Scotland have already received a pay rise thanks to the UK Labour administration’s New Deal for Working People; acknowledges recent analysis by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation on the extent of child poverty in Scotland, which observed deficiencies in the key data used to calculate poverty rates and found that 'we will need to go further to reach the 2030-31 targets', and calls on the Scottish Government to work with the UK Department for Work and Pensions to ensure that accurate data is available for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and other organisations to accurately assess the extent of child poverty in Scotland and the impact of policy interventions on it." followed by Urgent Question: Meghan Gallacher: To ask the Scottish Government whether it has any data showing the number of children or parents who were aware that results from the Health and Wellbeing Census could be accessed by third-party researchers. followed by Business Motions S6M-16340 Jamie Hepburn on behalf of the Parliamentary Bureau: Business Programme— That the Parliament agrees— (a) the following programme of business— Tuesday 18 February 2025 2.00 pm Time for Reflection followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions followed by Topical Questions (if selected) followed by Ministerial Statement: Community Wealth Building Progress and Future Ambition followed by Scottish Government Debate: Employer National Insurance Contributions followed by Committee Announcements followed by Business Motions followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions 5.00 pm Decision Time Wednesday 5 February 2025 4 Today's Business Future Business Motions & Questions Legislation Other Gnothaichean an-diugh Gnothaichean ri teachd Gluasadan agus Ceistean Reachdas Eile Chamber | Seòmar followed by Members’ Business Wednesday 19 February 2025 2.00 pm Parliamentary Bureau Motions 2.00 pm Portfolio Questions: Rural Affairs, Land Reform and Islands; Health and Social Care followed by Scottish Government Debate: Protecting the Powers of the Scottish Parliament followed by Legislative Consent Motion: Renters’ Rights Bill - UK Legislation followed by Business Motions followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions followed by Approval of SSIs (if required) 5.00 pm Decision Time followed by Members’ Business Thursday 20 February 2025 11.40 am Parliamentary Bureau Motions 11.40 am General Questions 12.00 pm First Minister's Questions followed by Members’ Business 2.30 pm Parliamentary Bureau Motions 2.30 pm Portfolio Questions: Social Justice followed by Scottish Government Debate: Scottish Income Tax Rate Resolution 2025-26 followed by Scottish Government Debate: Independent Review of Sentencing and Penal Policy followed by Business Motions followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions 5.00 pm Decision Time Tuesday 25 February 2025 2.00 pm Time for Reflection followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions followed by Topical Questions (if selected) followed by Stage 3 Proceedings: Budget (Scotland) (No. 4) Bill followed by Committee Announcements followed by Business Motions followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions 5.00 pm Decision Time followed by Members’ Business Wednesday 26 February 2025 2.00 pm Parliamentary Bureau Motions 2.00 pm Portfolio Questions: Constitution, External Affairs and Culture, and Parliamentary Business; Justice and Home Affairs Wednesday 5 February 2025 5 Today's Business Future Business Motions & Questions Legislation Other Gnothaichean an-diugh Gnothaichean ri teachd Gluasadan agus Ceistean Reachdas Eile Chamber | Seòmar followed by Scottish Green Party Business followed by Business Motions followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions followed by Approval of SSIs (if required) 5.10 pm Decision Time followed by Members’ Business Thursday 27 February 2025 11.40 am Parliamentary Bureau Motions 11.40 am General Questions 12.00 pm First Minister's Questions followed by Members’ Business 2.30 pm Parliamentary Bureau Motions 2.30 pm Portfolio Questions: Education and Skills followed by Scottish Government Business followed by Business Motions followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions 5.00 pm Decision Time (b) that, for the purposes of Portfolio Questions in the week beginning 17 February 2025, in rule 13.7.3, after the word “except...

Last updated: 29 October 2024

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A4 Budget-setting regulations 5 (1) The Scottish Ministers must, by regulations, set Scottish carbon budgets so that every year between 2026 and the net-zero emissions target year is covered by a budget. (2) A budget for a period— (a) may be set by expressing the prescribed number of tonnes of carbon 10 dioxide equivalent for the period either as a figure or as a method for 1 calculating a figure, and (b) may, in particular, be set by expressing the number as a proportion of the baseline multiplied by the number of years comprising the period. (3) The period covered by a Scottish carbon budget— 15 (a) is to be 5 years (for example 2026 to 2030), but (b) may be shorter in the case of the budget for the period that ends with the net-zero emissions target year. (4) In preparing a draft of regulations to be made under this section, the Scottish Ministers must— 20 (a) have regard to the target-setting criteria, and (b) act in accordance with the most up-to-date advice they have received from the relevant body, unless exceptional...

Last updated: 10 June 2024

Police Ethics Bill Letter from the Cab Sec JHA 10 June 2024

The proposed criteria for a case being brought after that point are that: • The case is serious and exceptional, • The case is likely to damage public confidence in policing, and • The PIRC has determined disciplinary proceedings are reasonable and proportionate.

Last updated: 10 June 2024

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This offence is contained at sections 42-45 of the Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act 2009, and provides that it is an offence for a person in certain positions of trust (such as those looking after children in schools, care homes or hospitals) to engage in sexual activity with a child in their care who is under the age of 18. It is an exception to the general ...

Last updated: 11 December 2023

UKSI Official Controls etc Regulations 2023 of 6 November 2023

In implementing the first stage of the BTOM, the changes being made by this SI bring From 30 January 2024, these aspects of the transitional arrangements to an end. imports of medium-risk plants and plant products entering GB from the EU, Liechtenstein or Switzerland, will be required to be accompanied by a phytosanitary certificate. An exception is being m...

Last updated: 6 October 2023

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There may therefore be some costs for the SPS in this event, but the Scottish Government anticipates this to be in exceptional circumstances. Establishing and defining Safe Access Zones 13.

Last updated: 5 October 2023

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