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Last updated: 13 May 2024

Register of Interests for the Parliamentary Year 12 May 2019 to 11 May 2020

This gift was accepted on the start date of my intern which was 8th January 2019, on which date I also established that the gift was from a permissible source.
Official Report Meeting date: 2 October 2018

Health and Sport Committee 02 October 2018

Colleagues will recognise that the regulations relate to matters that we will consider in great detail after the October recess, so there is relevance there. Joe FitzPatrick states in his letter that he requires a reply within 28 days—the 14 days of the recess are not included, so we have until 10 November.
Official Report Meeting date: 31 March 2022

Social Justice and Social Security Committee 31 March 2022

That concludes the public part of this morning’s meeting. Because Parliament is in recess next week, the committee’s next meeting will be on Thursday 21 April.
Official Report Meeting date: 7 February 2024

Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee 07 February 2024

That would have been received by Ms Gilruth and Mr Matheson, and Ms Gilruth updated Parliament after the Christmas recess in respect of the timetable and the Tomatin to Moy procurement problems that we had faced.
Last updated: 22 June 2023

SPBill16BS062023

.”, 35 (b) in the section title, after “release” insert “short-term”. (5) After that section insert— 10 Bail and Release from Custody (Scotland) Bill Part 2—release from custody “3AB Further powers to release long-term prisoners (1) The Scottish Ministers may release on licence under this section a long-term prisoner whose release under section 1 has not been recommended by the Parole Board. 5 (2) Before releasing a long-term prisoner by virtue of subsection (1), the Scottish Ministers must consult the Parole Board. (3) If directed to do so by the Parole Board, the Scottish Ministers must release on licence under this section a long-term prisoner whose release on having served one half of the prisoner’s sentence has been recommended by the Board. 10 (4) In deciding whether to release a long-term prisoner by virtue of subsection 1 (1) or direct the release of a prisoner by virtue of subsection (3), the Scottish Ministers or, as the case may be, the Parole Board must have regard to considerations of— (a) protecting the public at large (including any identifiable group of people), 15 (aa) protecting a victim or any member of a victim’s family, (b) preventing re-offending by the prisoner, and (c) securing the successful re-integration of the prisoner into the community. (5) A long-term prisoner may not be released on licence under this section before the beginning of the period of 180 days ending with the day on which the 20 prisoner will have served one half of the prisoner’s sentence. (6) The period for which a long-term prisoner is to be released on licence under this section (the “release period”)— (a) may not exceed 180 days on any one occasion, (b) is to be specified— 25 (i) where subsection (1) applies, by the Scottish Ministers, (ii) where subsection (3) applies, by the Parole Board. (7) Subject to subsection (6)(a), the Scottish Ministers or, as the case may be, the Parole Board may extend the release period specified by virtue of subsection (6)(b)(i) or, as the case may be, (ii). 30 (8) For the avoidance of doubt, nothing in this section requires the Scottish Ministers or the Parole Board to make a decision by a particular date...
Last updated: 22 December 2020

SPBill77BS052020

Initial members: transitional provision 13 (1) This paragraph applies if— 20 (a) before the commencement date, a body known as Environmental Standards Scotland is established (the “non-statutory Environmental Standards body”) in pursuance of a resolution of the Scottish Parliament— (i) endorsing the establishment of the body by that name, and (ii) approving the appointment of persons nominated to be its chairing and 25 other members, and (b) the body is still in existence immediately before the commencement date. (2) The person who was, immediately before the commencement date, the chairing member of the non-statutory Environmental Standards body is, on that date, taken to have been appointed under paragraph 2(1)(a) as the member to chair Environmental Standards 30 Scotland. (3) Any person who was, immediately before the commencement date, a member (other than the chairing member) of the non-statutory Environmental Standards body is, on that date, taken to have been appointed under paragraph 2(1)(b) as a member of Environmental Standards Scotland. 35 (4) A person to whom sub-paragraph (2) or (3) applies is referred to in this paragraph as an “initial member”. (5) An initial member’s period of appointment as a member— (a) is to continue to be the same as that for which the member had been appointed as a member of the non-statutory Environmental Standards body, and UK Withdrawal from the European Union (Continuity) (Scotland) Bill 37 Schedule 1—Environmental Standards Scotland (b) accordingly expires at the time at which the period of appointment as a member of the non-statutory Environmental Standards body would have expired. (6) Except as may be agreed between the Scottish Ministers and an initial member, the other terms of the member’s appointment are to continue to be the same as the terms on which 5 the member had been appointed as a member of the non-statutory Environmental Standards body so far as consistent with this Act. (7) In this paragraph, “commencement date” means the day on which section 15 comes into force.
Last updated: 8 March 2021

Standing Orders 58

That date shall not be later than 14 days after the final day of that recess period.
Last updated: 11 June 2024

Planning (Scotland) Bill as passed document

Planning (Scotland) Bill 37 Part 2—Masterplan consent areas Effect of exclusion on existing schemes 23 If a scheme has conferred authorisation in relation to development of a kind that regulations under paragraph 22 state cannot be granted authorisation by a scheme— 5 (a) the scheme ceases to have the effect of granting authorisation for any new development of that kind from the date the regulations prescribe, but (b) the authorisation granted by the scheme is unaffected by the regulations in relation to development begun before that date.
Last updated: 19 December 2025

ConvenerToSPPA_17Dec25

To inform that session, we request a written update on the following issues— • Progress as at end of February 2026 in delivering the McCloud remedy, including up-to-date numbers of cases resolved and which remain outstanding, broken down by scheme and by retirees and those still in service. • The Committee remains to be convinced that these matters are bein...
Last updated: 13 August 2025

Letter from Cab Sec Transport Scottish Zero Emission Bus Challenge Fund 08 August 2025

The Scottish Government is currently examining options to introduce regulation to prohibit the registration of new non zero emission buses from a date no earlier than 2030. Making additional funding available through ScotZEB 2 will support Scotland’s bus sector to respond proactively to any regulatory changes.

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