search

Official Report Meeting date: 12 January 2023

Meeting of the Parliament 12 January 2023

It is vital for islanders that we get the implementation of the new system right for Scotland’s island communities.

Official Report Meeting date: 15 December 2022

Meeting of the Parliament 15 December 2022

However, there is no doubt that our ability to do that will be augmented by the appointment early in the new year.

Questions and Answers Date answered: 14 March 2014

S4W-20049

Table 2: NHS board of treatment Financial Year 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 Golden Jubilee National Hospital 3 5 1 0 NHS Ayrshire and Arran 1,102 1,182 1,090 1,120 NHS Borders 239 184 213 185 NHS Dumfries and Galloway 789 578 550 516 NHS Fife 375 238 280 273 NHS Forth Valley 239 202 231 219 NHS Grampian 609 666 1,399 1,170 NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde 3,265 3,083 3,391 3,201 NHS Highland 797 793 721 674 NHS Lanarkshire 1,400 1,225 1,328 1,333 NHS Lothian 1,737 1,664 1,646 1,408 NHS Orkney 77 70 88 80 NHS Shetland 129 145 116 84 NHS Tayside 1,024 1,097 999 1,151 NHS Western Isles 26...

Questions and Answers Date answered: 27 August 2013

S4W-16680

Number of applications for homelessness assistance where a member of the household had slept rough the night before applying for assistance: Financial year of application 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 Scotland 3,430 3,302 2,744 2,517 1,952 1,741 Aberdeen City 364 343 184 220 84 64 Aberdeenshire 125 138 114 103 85 78 Angus 30 38 18 37 28 19 Argyll and Bute 45 61 60 35 32 29 Clackmannanshire 35 42 23 29 20 11 Dumfries and Galloway 116 77 68 50 56 43 Dundee City 20 216 195 133 83 96 East Ayrshire 58 37 24 19 32 9 East Dunbartonshire 19 11 10 13 9 6 East Lothian 41 26...

Questions and Answers Date answered: 2 October 2012

S4W-09702

Rural Payments and Inspection Directorate Area Office Rural Priorities (2009-11) Less Favoured Area Support Scheme (2009-11) Crofting Counties Agricultural Grant Scheme (01-12-09 to 21-09-12) Land Manager Options (2009-11) No % No % No % No % Ayr 1,123 18% 3,276 53% 0 0% 2,308 37% Benbecula 367 17% 1,615 73% 198 14% 252 11% Dumfries 974 20% 2,578 53% 0 0% 1,289 27% Elgin 525 31% 839 49% 0 0% 796 46% Galashiels 1,426 25% 2,356 42% 0 0% 2,169 38% Golspie 250 16% 1,132 70% 140 13% 168 10% Hamilton 266 10% 1,621 64% 0 0% 1,063 42% Inverness 971 21% 2,803 60% 174 6% 1,029 22% Inverurie 2,800 30% 2,968 31% 0 0% 4,341 46% Kirkwall 619 26...

Official Report Meeting date: 19 September 2012

Finance Committee 19 September 2012

It is not as simple as telling people to stop smoking; the message is more complicated than that. I have been qualified for 26 years now, and the core message has not changed over those 26 years.

Official Report Meeting date: 7 November 2017

Economy, Jobs and Fair Work Committee 07 November 2017

I think that those needs will become a bit more sharply focused as new frameworks come in, as new measurement frameworks are developed and as the Scottish Government gets to grips with its new powers.

Official Report Meeting date: 27 April 2017

Public Petitions Committee 27 April 2017

As Ali Hudson has rightly said, two cases of HBV have been identified in Spain since the move to its new system, but those were not the result of men having sex with men.

Official Report Meeting date: 1 March 2017

Finance and Constitution Committee 1 March 2017

The advice is that, in trying to secure new routes to Scotland, we are not competitive because we have one of the highest taxes of its kind in the world, and that is a consideration for operators when they look at where to locate new routes.

Last updated: 29 January 2026

SPBill55AS062026

P ART 1 R ECALL OF MEMBERS OF THE S COTTISH P ARLIAMENT 5 C HAPTER 1 I NITIATION OF THE RECALL PETITION PROCESS 1 How a member becomes subject to a recall petition process (1) A member becomes subject to a recall process if— (a) either— 10 (i) the parliamentary-sanction ground applies in relation to the member (see 1 section 2), or (ii) the criminal-offence ground applies in relation to the member (see section 3), and (b) as a result, the Presiding Officer issues a recall initiating notice in relation to the 15 member (see section 5). (1A) The recall process— (a) for a constituency member is the recall petition process set out in Chapter 2, (b) for a regional member is the recall poll process set out in Chapter 3A. (3) A member is subject to a recall process from the time a recall initiating notice is issued 20 in relation to the member until— (a) a recall termination notice in respect of the process is issued (see section 9), or (b) notice of the outcome of the process is given to the Presiding Officer in accordance or 17B. with section 14 Session SP Bill 55A 6 (2026) 2 Scottish Parliament (Recall and Removal of Members) Bill Part 1—Recall of members of the Scottish Parliament Chapter 1—Initiation of the recall petition process 5 Recall initiating notice (1) As soon as reasonably practicable after becoming aware that either— (a) the parliamentary-sanction ground, or (b) the criminal-offence ground, 5 applies in relation to a member, the Presiding Officer must issue a recall initiating notice to the returning officer. (2) But subsection (1) does not apply where it would require the Presiding Officer to issue a notice at a time— (a) when the member’s seat has already been vacated, 10 (b) when the member is already subject to a recall process, or 1 (c) within the period of 6 months ending with— (i) the day on which the poll for the next general election for membership of the Parliament is due to be held, or (ii) if that day is unknown because no order has been made under section 2(2B) 15 of the Scotland Act 1998, the day on which the Presiding Officer reasonably expects that poll to be held. (2A) Where the member is— (a) a constituency member— (i) a recall initiating notice is a notice instructing the returning officer to make 20 arrangements for a recall petition in relation to the member to be made available for signing, (ii) the returning officer is the person who is the constituency returning officer in relation to the constituency by virtue of an order under section 12(1) of the Scotland Act 1998, 25 (b) a regional member— (i) a recall initiating notice is a notice instructing the returning officer to make arrangements for a recall poll in relation to the member to be held in the region, (ii) the returning officer is the person who is the regional returning officer for 30 the region by virtue of an order under section 12(6) of the Scotland Act 1998. (3) A recall initiating notice— (a) must specify the day on which it is issued, (b) must specify which of the recall grounds applies in relation to the member, and 35 (c) in a case in which the notice is issued because the criminal-offence ground applies, must specify the offence of which the member has been convicted. 3 Scottish Parliament (Recall and Removal of Members) Bill Part 1—Recall of members of the Scottish Parliament Chapter 1—Initiation of the recall petition process 9 Early termination of process (1) Where a member is subject to a recall process when an event mentioned in subsection (2) occurs, the Presiding Officer is— (a) to issue a notice (which is referred to in this Part as a “recall termination notice”), 5 as soon as reasonably practicable, to the returning officer, and (b) unless the Parliament is dissolved when that notice is issued, lay a copy of the notice before the Parliament. (2) The events referred to in subsection (1) are— (a) the Parliament is dissolved, 10 (ba) the member’s seat becomes vacant, 1 (c) in a case where the recall process began because the criminal-offence ground applied in relation to the member, the Presiding Officer becomes aware that the conviction, sentence or order which caused that ground to apply has been materially overturned on appeal. 15 (3) When a returning officer receives a recall termination notice— (a) the officer’s duties to run the recall process under Chapter 2 or (as the case may be) 3A cease to apply, and (b) no further action is to be taken under or by virtue of this Part in relation to the process except— 20 (i) the action required under subsection (4), and (ii) any other action required or permitted by regulations under section 21 in relation to the termination of the process. (4) As soon as reasonably practicable after receiving the recall termination notice, the returning officer must— 25 (a) take such steps as the officer considers necessary to terminate the process, and (b) give public notice of the termination of the process in accordance with regulations under section 21. 15 Effect of successful petition The schedule modifies the Scotland Act 1998 to address the effect of a member being 30 recalled (which is that the seat of the member becomes vacant). 17 Eligibility to stand for future elections unaffected For the avoidance of doubt, losing a seat as a result of being recalled has no effect on a person’s ability to stand in elections for membership of the Parliament. 2 Parliamentary-sanction ground 35 (1) The parliamentary-sanction ground applies in relation to a member if, on a motion by a relevant committee of the Parliament, the Parliament resolves to sanction the member for a specified period of the requisite length. 4 Scottish Parliament (Recall and Removal of Members) Bill Part 1—Recall of members of the Scottish Parliament Chapter 1—Initiation of the recall petition process (2) A specified period is of the requisite length for the purposes of subsection (1) if— (a) in a case where the specified period is expressed as a number of sitting days, the period is at least 10 sitting days, or (b) in any other case, the period specified (however expressed) is a period of at least 5 14 days. (3) In subsection (1)— “relevant committee of the Parliament” means a committee of the Parliament with the standards of conduct of members in its remit, “sanction”, in relation to a member, means any of the following— 10 (a) the exclusion of the member from any proceedings of the Parliament, 1 including proceedings of any committee or sub-committee, (b) the exclusion of the member from the premises of the Parliament or any part of them. (4) For the purposes of subsection (1), it does not matter— 15 (a) when the period of the sanction starts, (b) where the specified period is expressed as a number of sitting days, what provision (if any) is made by standing orders of the Parliament regarding what does, or does not, count as a sitting day for the purpose of calculating that period. (5) Any question arising under this section as to which committee has the standards of 20 conduct of members in its remit is to be determined by the Presiding Officer. 3 Criminal-offence ground (1) The criminal-offence ground applies in relation to a member if— (a) the member is, after becoming a member, convicted in the United Kingdom of an offence, 25 (b) in respect of that offence, the member is sentenced or ordered to be imprisoned or detained, and (c) the appeal period in relation to the conviction and the sentence or (as the case may be) order expires without the conviction, sentence or order being materially overturned on appeal. 30 (2) In subsection (1)— (a) the reference to an offence includes— (i) an offence committed before the member became a member, and (ii) an offence committed before the day on which section 1 comes into force, but 35 (b) the reference to a member being convicted of an offence is only to a member being convicted of an offence on or after the day on which section 1 comes into force. 5 Scottish Parliament (Recall and Removal of Members) Bill Part 1—Recall of members of the Scottish Parliament Chapter 1—Initiation of the recall petition process (3) The reference in subsection (2) to a member being sentenced or ordered to be imprisoned or detained— (a) includes the member being sentenced or ordered to be imprisoned or detained notwithstanding that the sentence or order is suspended, 5 (b) does not include the member being remanded in custody, (c) does not include the member being authorised to be detained under an enactment mentioned in subsection (4) if there is no sentence or order for imprisonment or detention other than under one of those enactments. (4) The enactments referred to in subsection (3)(c) are— 10 (a) the Mental Health Act 1983, 1 (b) Part 6 or section 200(2)(b) of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995, (c) the Mental Health (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 (S.I. 1986/595). 4 Criminal-offence ground: expiry of appeal period (1) For the purposes of section 3(1), the appeal period in relation to a conviction, sentence 15 or order expires when— (a) it is no longer possible for there to be any relevant appeal, or (b) in a case where a relevant appeal has been brought, all relevant appeals have been determined or otherwise disposed of. (2) A “relevant appeal” for the purposes of this section is— 20 (a) an appeal that— (i) is in respect of the conviction, sentence or order in question, and (ii) is brought within the usual period, or (b) an appeal that— (i) is in respect of the determination of an appeal that was itself a relevant 25 appeal, and (ii) is brought within whichever of the following periods ends first— (A) the period of 28 days beginning with the date of the determination, (B) the usual period. (3) But a petition to the nobile officium is not a “relevant appeal” for the purposes of this 30 section (despite section 23(2)(d)). (4) In this section, “the usual period” in relation to bringing an appeal means the period allowed for bringing an appeal of the kind in question disregarding the possibility of its being brought out of time with permission. (5) References in this section to the determination of an appeal are, where the court to 35 which the appeal is brought remits the matter to another court for final determination, that other court. to the disposal of the proceedings by 6 Scottish Parliament (Recall and Removal of Members) Bill Part 1—Recall of members of the Scottish Parliament Chapter 2—The recall petition process C HAPTER 2 T HE RECALL PETITION PROCESS Arrangements for the process 6 Designation of where and when petition may be signed 5 (1) Having received a recall initiating notice in relation to a constituency member, a returning officer must, as soon as reasonably practicable and acting in accordance with any provision made under section 21, designate— (a) a place, or places, at which a recall petition in relation to the member is to be made available for signing, 10 (b) a day from which the petition is to be made available for signing, and 1 (c) the days, and times of day, during which the petition is to be made available for signing. (1A) A recall petition is a petition calling for the recall of the member to whom the initiating notice relates. 15 (2A) A maximum of 10 places may be designated under subsection (1)(a). (3) The returning officer, in determining which place or places to designate under subsection (1)(a), must seek to ensure— (a) that all persons entitled to sign the recall petition have such reasonable facilities for signing it as are practicable in the circumstances, and 20 (b) that, so far as is reasonable and practicable, every place designated is accessible to disabled persons. (4) The day designated under subsection (1)(b) is to be— (a) the 10th working day after the day on which the returning officer received the recall initiating notice, or 25 (b) if it is not reasonably practicable for that to be the designated day, the first subsequent working day that it is reasonably practicable to have be the designated day within the period of 3 weeks beginning with the returning officer receiving the recall initiating notice. (5) The returning officer, in determining the days and times of day to designate under 30 subsection (1)(c), must seek to ensure that the petition is reasonably available for signing throughout the signing period. 7 Notice of petition to be sent to registered electors As soon as reasonably practicable after complying with section 6, the returning officer must (in accordance with regulations under section 21) send a notice of petition to 35 persons entitled to sign the recall petition. 8 Duty to ensure petition’s availability for signing (1) The returning officer must ensure that the recall petition is (in accordance with regulations under section 21) made available for signing throughout the signing period— (aa) at the times and places designated under section 6(1), and 7 Scottish Parliament (Recall and Removal of Members) Bill Part 1—Recall of members of the Scottish Parliament Chapter 2—The recall petition process (b) by post. (2) A recall petition is made available for signing at a place, or by post, by a separate petition signing sheet being available for signing by each person entitled to sign the petition at the place, or by post, in accordance with regulations under section 21. 5 8A Change to start of signing period (1) The Presiding Officer may change (from the one designated under section 6(1)(b)) the day designated as the day from which a recall petition is to be made available for signing. (2) But the Presiding Officer may do so only— 10 (a) before the day designated under section 6(1)(b), and 1 (b) after consulting— (i) the returning officer in relation to the recall petition, (ii) the Electoral Commission, and (iii) the convener of the Electoral Management Board for Scotland. 15 (3) A day designated under subsection (1) must fall within the period of 8 weeks beginning with the day designated under section 6(1)(b). (4) As soon as reasonably practicable after designating a day under subsection (1), the Presiding Officer must— (a) notify the persons mentioned in subsection (2)(b) of the new...

Search

Refine your search

Need a specific search?

Can't find what you're looking for?