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Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body The Scottish Parliament’s copyright policy can be found on the website - www.parliament.scot or by contacting Public Information.
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Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body The Scottish Parliament’s copyright policy can be found on the website - www.parliament.scot or by contacting Public Information.
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In the interests of pre-empting a point of order, I point out that Willie Coffey has said in the BlueJeans chat function that Wallace was born in Ayrshire, that Elderslie did not exist in the middle ages and that Ellerslie, which is in Ayrshire, did.
The Government responded to the Committee's Stage 1 report on 26 March 2025. This set out the Government's overall approach to the Bill at Stage 1:
We share a number of the concerns that you have identified in your Stage 1 report regarding affordability and deliverability of the Bill in practice, and welcome your conclusion that the Bill should only progres...
If we use that as an argument for raising the age of criminal responsibility, at what point do we stop? At what point do we say that every young person fully understands the consequences of their actions?
One hundred and fifteen young people from groups across the area attended. 26 Other involvement with children and young people • PACT worked with a group of children from the Children’s Parliament to make a film about ‘What would a joyful Parliament look like in the future?
I know that local authorities will be desperate for further income to help the most vulnerable in their communities, and they are best placed to do that. There are points in the Conservative amendment that we would like to examine and debate further.