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There is growing recognition in the development of public services that changes need to be rooted in the evidence and testimony of those with lived experience. We have seen that in new approaches to tackling homelessness and in building our new social security system from the ground up.
Personally, I would have stopped all new commissioners, including the new Patient Safety Commissioner, and the new role of victims and witnesses commissioner, which—as is somewhat ironic—we agreed to only yesterday.
Similarly, changes to cross-border visits legislation will extend the ability of a patient to undertake an escorted visit—for example, to visit an unwell relative—to patients who are subject to measures in other EU states.
Figures for 1999 are not shown as the time series is only available on a consistent basis from 2000-01. Information on new build for social rent by Scottish Parliamentary constituency area is not held centrally.
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...