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Committee reports
Date published:
12 September 2017
Integration Authorities Engagement with Stakeholders (in private): The Committee considered the main themes arising from the oral evidence heard earlier in the meeting and agreed to invite the Scottish Government to give evidence at a future meeting.
16th Meeting, 2017 (Session 5) Tuesday 13 June 2017
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Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee 30th Report 2017 (Session 5)
At the Health and Sport Committee's 16th meeting on the 13 June 2017, the Committee took evidence on the regulations from—
Maureen Watt, Minister for Mental Health;
Innes Fyfe, Team Leader Mental Health and Protection of Rights Division; and
Lindsay Anderson, Solicitor, Scottish Governme...
The Scottish Government does not consider that any substantive inconvenience or detriment has resulted from these Regulations being laid on 16th March (rather than on 3rd March).
I suspend the meeting briefly. 09:35 Meeting suspended. 09:38 On resuming—New Petitions New PetitionsDrinking Water Supplies (PE1646) Drinking Water Supplies (PE1646) Agenda item 2 is consideration of new petitions.
found that 78 per cent of consumers in the two lowest-income household groups rely on cash—indeed, 26 per cent of respondents in those groups said that they never use card payments—and that 80 per cent of over-65s rely on cash.
Another thing that was really cool was that I got a reusable water bottle when I visited COP26. I think that everybody who visited Glasgow for the conference got one, so when you submitted your petition, I thought, “Why don’t we give our own children the same thing?
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
8 January 2026
The Scottish Government is providing £2.5 million to Cycling Scotland to deliver the Bikeability programme in 2025-26.Record levels of participation in Bikeability were maintained during the 2023-24 academic year (the latest period for which statistics are available).Additional resources for local authorities a...
The operation of Police Scotland, including the deployment of officers, is for the Chief Constable. The latest official statistics show there were 16,553 FTE police officers in Scotland on 31 March 2025.