This search includes all content on the Scottish Parliament website, except for Votes and Motions. All Official Reports (what has been said in Parliament) and Questions and Answers are available from 1999. You can refine your search by adding and removing filters.
Taking all that together, the current forecast is a deficit of just over £26 million for 2018-19.
We understand that the board will require brokerage from the Scottish Government to cover that.
Retrieved from <a href="https://www.sfha.co.uk/news/news-category/sfha-news/news-article/new-support-for-tenants-not-extended-eviction-notice-periods-will-help-people-to-keep-their-homes" target="_blank">https://www.sfha.co.uk/news/news-category/sfha-news/news-article/new-support-for-tenants-not-extended-eviction-notice-periods-will-help-people-to-keep-their-homes</a> [accessed 29 2021] As GWSF has said:
... extending notice periods helps only those tenants who aren’t engaging with their landlord or who could pay the rent but are deliberately taking advantage of what they see as the lack of sanctions.
Rural Affairs and Islands Committee consideration
The Committee took evidence on the draft regulations from the Minister for Agriculture and Connectivity and Scottish Government officials at its meeting on 26 November 2025.
The Minister made an opening statement, setting out the purpose and objectives of the instrument.
Committee reports
Date published:
9 September 2025
Membership changes
The following changes to the Committee’s membership occurred during the Committee’s scrutiny:
On 2 April 2025, Joe FitzPatrick MSP replaced Keith Brown MSP as a member of the Committee
On 26 June 2025, Paul McLennan MSP replaced Joe FitzPatrick MSP as a member of the Committee.
Use of cleaner fish (recommendations 26 and 28)
So called ‘cleaner fish’, such as lumpfish and wrasse, are natural sea lice predators and have been increasingly used in salmon farming as an alternative method of controlling sea lice to chemicals.
Budget Scrutiny
The Committee took evidence on the 2023-24 Budget from the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Housing and Local Government on 19 January 2023.
On 26 January 2023, the Convener spoke on behalf of the Committee during the Finance and Public Administration Debate: Scottish Budget 2023-24.
For more information please visit our website at www.parliament.scot/chamber-and- committees/research-prepared-for-parliament Follow SPICe on X to keep up to date with our work and new publications .
To ask the Scottish Government what measures in its draft Budget 2025-26 reflect the statement by the First Minister on 22 May 2024, in which he stated that one of his "priorities is to grow Scotland’s economy".