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As noted within the Operational Improvement Plan, the Government will report against it publicly and to Parliament within 2025-26. Statistics relating to a number of its commitments will also continue to be published meantime.
Committee reports
Date published:
11 November 2020
It is important that customers have choice in the establishments they visit and the products they buy. Pub owners and those managing and operating pubs should feel that tied-pub arrangements are mutually beneficial.
England and Wales created a stand-alone offence of strangulation or suffocation, which came into force in June 2022. Northern Ireland created a new offence of non-fatal strangulation or asphyxiation, which came into force on 26 June 2023.
Other evidence sessions
Throughout this parliamentary year, the Committee held focussed sessions on a range of issues:
University of Dundee, including at meetings on 25 June, 26 June and 29 October.
Universities
Professor Alexis Jay and the Cabinet Secretary for Justice and Home Affairs, followed by an evidence session on group-based child sexual abuse and...
Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation is now at more ‘normal’ levels. During 2025-26, it has been slightly higher than the SFC had forecast, primarily due to higher food and services inflation.
Restraint and Seclusion in Schools (Scotland) Bill
SP Bill number61Type of BillMLength of Bill (no. of pages in the Bill excluding contents pages and back sheets)4Date introduced17 Mar 25Preliminary discussions in committeeLead committee appointedECYP 26 Mar 25Stage 1 discussions in lead committeeStage 1 discussions in other committeesStage 1 report ref.St...
The Committee undertook a short inquiry into progress on widening access to higher education, taking evidence at meetings on 26 February 2025 and 5 March 2025. The Committee published its report on 15 May 2025.
The Committee completed Stage 2 consideration of the Bill on 26 September 2024.
Stage 3 proceedings took place on 3 December 2024 and the Bill became law on 23 January 2025.
A debate on S6M-10032 investing in Alcohol Services to Reduce Alcohol Related Harm in Scotland was held on 26 July 2023. More recently, there was a Ministerial Statement on Implementing the Medication Assisted Treatment Standards.