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Lead committee work
Evidence session on 30 September 2025 (Read the Official Report)
Evidence session on 28 October 2025 (Read the Official Report)
Evidence session on 4 November 2025 (Read the Official Report)
Meeting on 13 January 2026
Meeting on 20 January 2026
Report published on 21 January 2026
Work by other committees
Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee
Original memorandum
Meeting on 16 September 2025
Meeting on 7...
This means that there is no impact on the 2025-26 Scottish Budget figures. Indeed, the SFC were not informed of the policy until after its final policy deadline, meaning that it has not included a costing of the policy in its fiscal forecasts.
UK Withdrawal from the European Union (Continuity) (Scotland) Bill
UK Withdrawal from the European Union (Continuity) (Scotland) BillSP Bill number77Type of BillGLength of Bill (no. of pages in the Bill excluding contents pages and back sheets)35Date introduced18 Jun 20Preliminary discussions in committeeECCLR 23 Jun 20Lead committee appointedECCLRStage 1 discussions in lead committeeECCLR 11 Aug 20ECCLR 18 Aug 20ECCLR 25 Aug 20ECCLR 1 Sep 20ECCLR 14 Sep 20ECCLR 21 Sep 20Stage 1 discussions in other committeesDPLR 18 Aug 20FCC 19 Aug 20FCC 26...
Education and Skills Committee Consideration
On 7 November, the Education and Skills Committee took evidence on the Assigned Colleges (University of the Highlands and Islands) Order 2018 [Draft] from the Minister for Further Education, Higher Education and Science, Richard Lochhead MSP.
In summary, the Bill:
establishes a Commission and sets out the Commission's powers and functions (sections 1 and 2; schedule 1);
provides procedures for the appointment of the Commissioners and their terms of office (sections 4 and 5; schedule 2);
identifies the land that is deemed to benefit from the drainage channel (‘the benefited land’) (section 3);
makes provision for meetings, including provision for decisions by a majority of Commissioners attending (sections 6, 7...
Following agreement between the Scottish Government and COSLA on the distribution methodology of the £105m, the amount allocated to each council (which is the same in 2023-24, 2024-25 and 2025-26) has been set out in local government 11 12 13 finance circulars for 2023-24, for 2024-25 and for 2025-26.