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(b) Latest planning performance standards highlighted a near 55-week average decision time for major housing applications – 39 weeks more than the 16-week statutory timescale.
Committee reports
Date published:
18 September 2026
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Annual report of the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee 2025-26
Annual Report 2025-26 for the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee.
It stated —11Letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills to the Convener, 26 June 2025. (n.d.) Retrieved from https://www.parliament.scot/-/media/files/committees/education-children-and-young-people-committee/correspondence/2025/restraint-and-seclusion-bill-cab-sec-es-to-convener-26-june-2025.pdf [acce...
Commitments made by the LPPO
Commitment from 2024
Act of Adjournal (Criminal Procedure Rules 1996 Amendment) (United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Incorporation) (Scotland) Act 2024) 2024 (SSI 2024/174)(47th Report 2024, Published 26 June 2024) The LPPO has advised that the definition will be removed at the next available opportunity.
In follow up correspondence with the Committee, Superintendent Corrigan expanded further on how prior experience of enforcing existing legislation would inform Police Scotland’s approach to enforcement of the current Bill , concluding:
We would assess each incident on the facts and circumstances that presented themselves to us, primarily around the conduct and attitude of the person(s) present5Police Scotland. (2024, March 26...
Questions and Answers
Date lodged:
10 November 2026
We remain committed to delivering our target of 800 new GPs by 2027. It is good to hear that the numbers should be going up, because the latest figures show that, excluding trainees, the number of GPs fell in the past year.