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Liberal Democrats have continued to express anxiety and concern not only about individual jobs in the institutions but about the longer-term consequences of the merger and the situation.
Permitted premises
The Committee acknowledges concerns expressed by some of those businesses currently providing non-surgical procedures about the Scottish Government's proposed approach to regulation of these procedures.
Committee reports
Date published:
17 December 2025
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HUB for SUCCESS expressed concerns about how care experience will be recognised for those without formal documentation, or whose experiences occurred in informal or unrecorded settings, noting that the Bill mus...
Committee reports
Date published:
17 December 2025
meeting=16634
The Fostering Network and COSLA expressed concern that potential loopholes may still exist despite stronger reporting requirements for charities under section 9.xviScottish Parliament. (2025, September).
Committee reports
Date published:
30 September 2025
However, Dr Chris Provan from the Royal College of General Practitioners Scotland expressed his support for the definition contained in the Bill and for the decision of Liam McArthur not to include a prognostic timescale within that definition:
The definition is not one of the areas that we have significant concerns about, because it appears to cover much o...
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Some contributors, including Barry Black, the Royal Society of Biology and the Stirling Centre for Research into Curriculum Making expressed concern that the Bill does not include any provision in relation to Education Scotland or set out how the bodies will relat...
Committee reports
Date published:
15 November 2024
meeting=16034 [accessed 24 October 2024]
Several respondents raised concerns regarding the absence of a dedicated National Outcome on gender equality, suggesting that, despite improvements in integrating gendered considerations across the Outcomes, the lack of a dedicated Outcome on gender equality misses an opportunity to achieve greater alignment with the SDGs and weakens the focus on gender-specific issues. Some such as the SWBG expressed...