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Annex A: References to sustainable development in Scottish legislation
Please find below a list of the 26 Acts of the Scottish Parliament which refer to “sustainable development”, often prefixed by references to ‘promoting’ or ‘achieving’, up to the end of February 2024.
The inaugural meeting of the group took place on 26 June 2025. A communique for the meeting was published too late for inclusion in the Q2 intergovernmental activity update.
Committee reports
Date published:
24 September 2025
Commitment made by the LPPO
Commitment from 2024
Act of Adjournal (Criminal Procedure Rules 1996 Amendment) (United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Incorporation) (Scotland) Act 2024) 2024 (SSI 2024/174)(47th Report 2024, Published 26 June 2024) The LPPO has advised that the definition will be removed at the next available opportunity.
While 51% of respondents did not answer a question on whether there should be “some measure of payment for panel members, over and above the current system of expenses, in return for the introduction of new and updated expectations”, of the 49% that did answer, 26% said no and 74% said yes.
A proposal for the creation of a new ‘legal member’ was not a recom...
At present, corporate parenting duties apply to looked after children, as well as those who left care on or after their 16th birthday but who are under 26.iiiChildren and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014, section 57(1) and 97(2); Children (Scotland) Act 1995, sections 17(6) and 17A(2).
The Committee agreed a three-year pre-budget scrutiny plan to look at each principle of human rights budgeting in turn: participation in year 1, transparency in year 2 and accountability in year 3.
For the 2025-26 period, the Committee focussed its work on Budget transparency.
The policy note further states that due to budgetary pressures, it was not possible to make an above GDP Deflator increase for 2025/26. The note explains that the rates will be increased by the GDP Deflator of 2.37% with rates increasing from £248.70 to £254.60 for personal care and increasing from £111.90 to £114.55 for nursing care.
The focus of the Committee’s scrutiny of the Scottish Government’s budget for 2025/26 will be the money being spent to achieve the Climate Change Committee's "balanced pathway" to a net-zero Scotland by 2045.