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Committee reports
Date published:
10 December 2025
Contract (Formation and Remedies) (Scotland) Bill at Stage 1 - Electronic communications and future proofing
Professor MacQueen reflected that there were some circumstances in which it might be reasonable to expect an out of office message to mean a person could not obtain access to a notification (e.g. within a period stated when they were on holiday), and other circumstances when this might not hold (e.g. an out of date out of office message).iiDelegated Powers ...
Committee reports
Date published:
30 October 2025
Delegated Powers in the Digital Assets (Scotland) Bill at Stage 1
This will allow advance notice of a precise date to be communicated.
It is standard to take a power at the end of a Bill to commence those sections of the Bill where provision has not been made in the Bill for commencement.
Committee reports
Date published:
30 October 2025
Report on pre-budget scrutiny 2026-27: responding to long-term fiscal pressures - Delays to fiscal events and publications
The SFC decided to proceed with publication of Scotland’s Economic and Fiscal Forecasts on the original date for the MTFS in May2Scottish Fiscal Commission. (2025, May).
SPICe briefings
Date published:
16 October 2025
Palliative care and assisted dying - Scottish legislation and policy
There have been some attempts over the years to legislate to ensure better provision of palliative care in Scotland but, to date, these have been unsuccessful. For example, in 2010, a Member's Bill entitled the Palliative Care (Scotland) Bill, in the name of Gil Paterson MSP, was introduced but did not pass stage 1.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
14 October 2025
Prevention of Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Bill - Provision in the Bill
In the Scottish Government's letter to the Criminal Justice Committee dated 23 June 20251Scottish Parliament. (2025, June 23).
Committee reports
Date published:
2 October 2025
Strengthening committees' effectiveness - Relationship with stakeholders
Managed by SPICe, the Network aims to encourage knowledge exchange between the Parliament and academia via a network of knowledge exchange/brokering professionals throughout Scottish (and increasingly wider reaching) Higher Education institutions. Members of SPAN are kept up to date with current opportunities for academics to engage with the Parliament incl...
Committee reports
Date published:
30 September 2025
Stage 1 report on the Natural Environment (Scotland) Bill - Target topics not included in the Bill
However, the Scottish Government has committed to continuing to work with the PAG and NatureScot to explore options for measurement for those topics and, if deemed appropriate for statutory targets, they will be considered for inclusion at a later date.
The importance of ensuring target topics relating to 'Ecosystem health and integrity' and 'Citizens and s...
Committee reports
Date published:
17 September 2025
Supplementary Delegated Powers in the Criminal Justice Modernisation and Abusive Domestic Behaviour Reviews (Scotland) Bill (as amended at Stage 2) - Review of relevant powers
Review of relevant powers
Section 5A(2): Power to modify list of persons issued with and wearing ‘body-worn video cameras’
Power conferred on: Scottish Ministers
Power exercisable by: Regulations made by Scottish statutory instrument
Parliamentary procedure: Negative
Revised or new power: New
Provision
Section 5A of the Bill inserts a new section 283A into the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995, which, in some circumstances, provides that when body-worn video footage is produced in evidence by the prosecution, and any or all of the date...
News
Published:
9 September 2025
Significant concerns about costs of tertiary education and training funding proposals – MSPs
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