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Official Report Meeting date: 28 October 2025

Meeting of the Parliament 28 October 2025 [Draft]

As I am sure that the cabinet secretary will acknowledge, I specifically met the Government to discuss amendments on which I thought that common ground would be found. I can give the date of those meetings to the chamber if it is useful.
Official Report Meeting date: 8 January 2015

Meeting of the Parliament 08 January 2015

Working hours, levels of full-time employment and real wages also remain below pre-recession norms. That is a legacy of the recession, and tackling those issues will provide key areas of focus for this Government.
Last updated: 7 May 2026

Cumulative list of MSPs by party Session 6

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Last updated: 13 September 2020

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The communications throughout the year were informed by the overall aims and included: • The release of data, imagery and information to the media coinciding with key anniversary dates; • Securing of a broad range of media interviews with the Presiding Officer, Clerk/Chief Executive and staff working in a range of roles within the Parliament; • Designing a ...
Last updated: 14 August 2020

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This power gives the flexibility to allow the list of alternative methods of dispute resolution to be kept up to date and to reflect any new methods in respect of which the Scottish Ministers consider that legal aid should be made available, without the need for primary legislation on each occasion. 5 This document relates to the Children (Scotland) Bill (S...
Last updated: 24 April 2020

Delegated Powers Memorandum Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Bill

In addition to consolidation, the Bill seeks to modernise and extend existing hate crime legislation by:  including age as an additional characteristic in new provisions for the aggravation of offences by prejudice under Part 1 of the Bill (existing aggravations, which the new provisions will replace, apply only in relation to disability, race, religion, sexual orientation and transgender identity);  creating new offences relating to stirring up hatred in Part 2 of the Bill that will apply in relation to all listed characteristics, including age, disability, race, religion, sexual orientation, transgender identity and variations in sex characteristics (existing offences, SP Bill 67–DPM 1 Session 5 (2020) This document relates to the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) (SP Bill 67) as introduced in the Scottish Parliament on 23 April 2020 which these new offences will largely replace, apply only in relation to race);  updating the definition of transgender identity in Parts 1 and 2 of the Bill, including removing the term ‘intersexuality’ and creating a separate category for variations in sex characteristics; and  including a power to enable the characteristic of sex to be added to the lists of characteristics referred to in Parts 1 and 2 of the Bill by regulations at a later date...
Official Report Meeting date: 22 February 2023

Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee 22 February 2023

It is important that we keep on the pressure and press for a completion date and that we better understand the reasons why there is not faster progress.
Official Report Meeting date: 13 January 2022

Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee 13 January 2022

Overall, I consider that the changes will provide greater clarity on, and oversight of, electoral spending. The order will bring forward the date when poll cards can be issued to electors.
Last updated: 1 September 2020

Delegated Powers Memorandum United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child

Section 40(3) will help future readers of the Act the Bill will become by providing the actual dates when key provisions in sections 20 and 21 came into force.
Last updated: 1 October 2019

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Street trading etc. outdoor trading within event zone 5 Ban on 35 (1) It is an offence to trade within an event zone at a prohibited time (“the trading offence”). (2) The trading offence does not apply to trading in a building. (3) The Scottish Ministers may by regulations (“the trading regulations”)— (a) exempt types of trading from the trading offence, 3 UEFA European Championship (Scotland) Bill (b) make such further provision as they consider appropriate in relation to trading within event zones. (4) The trading offence does not apply to trading by UEFA (so long as that trading is done in accordance with any conditions imposed by the trading regulations). 5 6 Trading activities, places and prohibited times (1) An activity is to be treated as trading if it is the sale or offer for sale, in an open public place, of an article or service. (2) For example, any of the following acts done in an open public place are to be treated as trading (except as exempted or permitted in the trading regulations by virtue of section 10 5(3) or 7(1))— (a) selling an article, (b) supplying a service, (c) making an appeal to members of the public to give money or other property (or both) for charitable or other purposes (whether authorised or not under any 15 enactment), (d) providing public entertainment for gain or reward. (3) The trading regulations may prescribe, or provide criteria for determining— (a) activities which are (or are not) to be treated as trading for the purpose of the trading offence, 20 (b) places or areas within an event zone where the trading offence will not apply, (c) alternative arrangements for existing street traders during the times when the trading offence applies, and (d) times which are prohibited times for the purpose of the trading offence. (4) The prohibited times may only be during the Championship period. 25 (5) In subsection (3)(c), an “existing street trader” is any person— (a) to whom Glasgow City Council has granted a street trader’s licence, or market operator’s licence, authorising the person to trade at a place in Glasgow City Council's area prior to the date...

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