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Overall rural affairs and islands budget Following the publication of the revenue spending review, and noting the information provided in this table— Level 2 2022-23 2023-24 2024-25 2025-26 2026-27 £m £m £m £m £m Agricultural support and 738 733 734 732 736 related services Rural services 43 44 45 47 47 Fisheries 16 6 5 5 5 Marine 82 94 93 98 96 Islands 3 3 2 3 3 Total (cash terms) 881 879 879 884 885 Total (real terms) 881 858 843 831 816 The Committee agreed to write to you to ask for more information on the following— • The rationale for protecting certain areas of the budget and not others, including the rural affairs and islands portfolio?
Housing (Scotland) Bill — Stage 2 Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee Daily List Section 19 Mark Griffin 565 In section 19, page 16, line 26, at end insert—
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United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Incorporation) (Scotland) Bill — Reconsideration Stage Section 35 Shirley-Anne Somerville 45 In section 35, page 26, line 18, at end insert—
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The membership of the Committee has changed over the parliamentary year as follows—
Jamie Halcro Johnston joined the Committee on 4 September 2025 (replacing Alexander Stewart who left the Committee on 26 June 2025)
Having agreed to take a cumulative approach to budget scrutiny over Session 6, this inquiry followed on from the Committee’s previous pre- budget scrutiny for 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25 and 2025-26. The Committee published its report on 21 November 2025.
Policy announcements
The only significant policy announcement on social security was a decision to increase the Scottish Child Payment to £40 per week (it was £27.15 per week in 2025-26) for children under the age of one.
For example, the Committee heard from a woman who had to use savings to pay for legal fees that had been set aside for kinship care arrangements, and from another woman whose depletion of savings meant she had no money left to purchase clothes for her children.Key themes from lived experience engagement with members of Scottish Women's Aid Survivor Reference Group: 26 March
Following the introduction of the Bill, the Committee held a roundtable discussion with key stakeholders on 26 March 2025 and an evidence session with the Minister for Victims and Community Safety on 23 April 2025.