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The Committee would appreciate a response to this letter prior to the scheduled debate on the Scottish Government Draft Budget 2022-23 on 26 January 2022.
Yours sincerely
Finlay Carson MSP
Convener of the Rural Affairs, Islands and Natural Environment Committee.
Committee reports
Date published:
22 December 2021
Disqualification of offenders for holding elective offices as a result of intimidatory or abusive behaviour(section 26-34 and schedule 9) insofar as it relates to the qualifications for nomination as a candidate for election to, or holding the office of, a member of the Scottish Parliament or a local government elective office in Scotland.
The rest of the Bill mainly concerns the ground-rules of the new licensing regime. These provisions specify:
What information the applicant must provide: this includes who will be running the funfair, where, when and with what equipment.
r=10774&c=1972116The RTPI agreed that resourcing was an issue for remediating brownfield space, stating that—
most of the easiest remediation work on brownfield land has already taken place; we are getting to the harder sites now
Local Government and Communities Committee 01 February 2017, Craig McLaren, contrib. 26, http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/pa...
The Minister for Victims and Community Safety wrote to the Committee on 26 February 2026 to advise that the draft instrument would therefore be withdrawn and a revised SSI laid.
The Scottish Government's memorandum on the Bill also suggested that consideration should be given to including children and young people themselves in the list of consultees on any guidance produced or updated.2Letter 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 [accessed 1 December 2025]
SB 26-02i
Scottish Budget 26-27: Taxes Infographic
This infographic looks at the Scottish Fiscal Commission's forecasts for Income Tax, Non-Domestic Rates, Land and Buildings Transaction Tax, Scottish Landfill Tax and Scottish Aggregates Tax.
Committee reports
Date published:
18 November 2025
Not doing so would save the Scottish Government £11m in 2025-26 and £155m in 2026-27. This means that instead of spend above BGA increasing by £306m in 2026-27, it would only increase by £162m.
Invest to Save Fund
The 2025-26 Scottish Budget included an Invest to Save Fund of up to £30 million which recognised “the need to catalyse efficiency, effectiveness and productivity projects as part of the PSR programme”.1Scottish Government . (2024, December).