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Following the 2018 Act, the powers and duties held by the Commissioners were transferred to Scottish Ministers (where they relate to Scotland). Two new organisations were established to replace FCS: Forestry and Land Scotland, and Scottish Forestry.
Official Report, 23 September 2025, Cols 2-26.
The Committee took further oral evidence on 28 October 2025 from representatives of COSLA, the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) and Solace, followed by evidence from the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government.iiiLGHP Committee.
Committee reports
Date published:
19 December 2025
For example, amendments sought to:
remove requirements for foreign students to be required to have a UK based guarantor who either owns property or earns more than a certain amount of money
require Scottish Ministers to establish a scheme for young people aged 26 and under and estranged from their families
add a fund for improving or securing the provision ...
The Scottish Government has prepared a Delegated Powers Memorandum which sets out the reasons for taking the delegated powers in the Bill and the parliamentary scrutiny procedure that has been chosen.iThe Delegated Powers Memorandum is available here
The Committee determined that it did not need to draw the attention of the Parliament to the delegated powers in either of the following provisions:
Section 21 – Ancillary provision; and
Section 26...
There was support for percentage-based targets from WWF ScotlandiiiEnvironment, Climate Change and Land Reform Committee, Official Report, 20 November 2018, Col 26 and Stop Climate Chaos Scotland (SCCS).vWritten Submission.
Committee reports
Date published:
11 December 2017
This is anecdotal but, for example, quite often people who look after frail elderly parents who are not eligible for attendance allowance—which has quite strict eligibility criteria—do not qualify.
Social Security Committee 26 October 2017 [Draft], Heather Noller, contrib. 13, http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/report.aspx?
S6W-40345 Mark Griffin: To ask the Scottish Government whether the £768 million budget for the Affordable Housing Supply Programme in 2025-26 represents a net increase compared with previous years, and how much is new, versus restored, funding.
Crofting and Scottish Land Court Bill Marshalled List of Amendments for Stage 2 The Bill will be considered in the following order— Sections 1 to 35 Schedule 1 Sections 36 to 40 Schedule 2 Sections 41 to 44 Long Title Amendments marked * are new (including manuscript amendments) or have been altered.