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Committee reports
Date published:
12 December 2025
Pre-Budget scrutiny 2026-27: Human Rights Budgeting - The participation of citizens in developing and evaluating policy in a meaningful way
Progress also remains insufficient to facilitate a rights-based analysis of the budget, which is concerning as Scotland progresses to incorporate Economic, Social and Cultural rights into domestic law
The Committee encourages the Scottish Government to reflect on its approach to development and evaluation of policy and place a new emphasis on participation in a way that it has not achieved to date.
The Committee also reflects on its own experience of participation and co-production working with CARM this year.
Committee reports
Date published:
11 December 2025
Stage 1 report on the Building Safety Levy (Scotland) Bill - Policy objectives of the Bill
The liability for the SBSL arises on “the date of acceptance of a completion certificate”.
Committee reports
Date published:
5 December 2025
Subordinate legislation considered by the Rural Affairs and Islands Committee on 3 December 2025 - Written evidence
Responses to the call for views also highlighted concerns around a lack of information about how the ‘have regard’ duty would be managed, applied and monitored, as well as how the schedules would be kept up to date. The Scottish Food Coalition questioned the process for updating the schedules.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
18 November 2025
Digital Assets (Scotland) Bill - Protection for innocent acquirers of these digital assets
Letter from the Expert Reference Group to Richard Lochhead MSP, Minister for Small Buisness, Innovation, Tourism and Trade, dated 18 November 2024. Retrieved from https://www.gov.scot/publications/digital-assets-in-scots-private-law-expert-reference-group-recommendations-letter-to-minister/ [accessed 20 October 2025] did not provide further explanation for ...
Committee reports
Date published:
2 October 2025
Strengthening committees' effectiveness - The approach of Scottish Parliament committees
Retrieved from: https://bprcdn.parliament.scot/published/CPPP/2025/5/22/016edb5a-5804-4c9e-a709-65f6120d81b2/CPPPC06202501.pdf
The report concludes that the impact of People’s Panels can be profound, and that there is already encouraging evidence from the evaluation of Panels to date about their positive contribution to both scrutiny and participants engage...
Committee reports
Date published:
30 September 2025
Stage 1 report on the Natural Environment (Scotland) Bill - Duty to set statutory targets
The voluntary approach to biodiversity targets taken to date has not managed to halt or reverse biodiversity declines.
Committee reports
Date published:
26 September 2025
The Winter Heating Assistance (Pension Age) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2025 [draft]
This will be the largest benefit administered by Social Security Scotland to date, requiring significant planning and co-operation with the Department for Work and Pensions and the Ministry of Defence to carry out the required period of data assurance and complete the household matching process to allow the Scottish Government to meet its target of beginnin...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
25 September 2025
Digital assets in Scots law - Commercial and legal reasons for legislating
The difficulty is that existing definitions of the kind of thing that can be objects of property were formulated long before digital technology was invented. They may now be out of date.
The ERG pointed to Scots law's traditional recognition of only corporeal things and incorporeal rights as property objects, contending that digital assets “are neither one...
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Date published:
27 May 2025
Annual report of the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee 2024-25 - Bills
(Scotland) Bill
The Bill was introduced on 11 December 2024 and aims to modernise and clarify the law around how certain leases can continue automatically past their termination date, and other procedural elements related to ending leases.
