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The Committee recommends that concluding the joint review of the written agreement on intergovernmental relations between the Parliament and the Government is a priority for our successor early in Session 7 as a means to improve transparency and accountability of intergovernmental activity.
Committee reports
Date published:
21 December 2025
Annexe G - Commissioned Research and Engagement Events
Commissioned Research: Report on Public Inquiries in Sweden and Norway
Following a request by the Committee, the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe) commissioned research on how two other European countries conduct processes similar to UK public inquiries:
Report on Public Inquiries in Sweden and Norway
Engagement Events
The Committee held engagement events with current public inquiry secretariat and Scottish Government officials on 30 September 2025 and with people with lived experience of public inquiries on 7...
Clause 7 enables an appropriate national authority to commence, by way of transitional or savings provisions in regulations, certain provisions in the Bill.
Committee reports
Date published:
20 November 2023
It was laid before the Scottish Parliament on 7 September 2022.
The instrument is made in exercise of the powers conferred by section 13(1) of the Scottish Biometrics Commissioner Act 2020.
Committee reports
Date published:
20 December 2018
Dissolution of the Incorporation and transfer to a new Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (SCIO)
In order to help inform its scrutiny of the Bill, the Committee took evidence at its meeting on 7 November 2018 from the Promoter of the Bill.1Hutchesons' Hospital Transfer and Dissolution (Scotland) Bill Committee, Official Report. (2018, December 7).
Five year prescription would have applied to relevant debts, instead of twenty year prescription. Amendments 6 and 7 were disagreed to by division. Amendment 5 was moved and, no member having objected, withdrawn.
I must say that we have had significant buy-in from other ministers in other parts of the Government on the wellbeing agenda, which Mr Ruskell highlighted, but how do we link that to what we are doing furth of Scotland?