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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 They may now be out of date.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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11 September 2025
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Committee reports
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.
Committee reports
Date published:
22 May 2025
A blueprint for participation - embedding deliberative democracy in the work of the Scottish Parliament - Introduction
To support the development of the Blueprint and ongoing work to embed deliberative democracy, SPICe has commissioned a series of fellowships, with three to date having concluded and one in progress.
Committee reports
Date published:
16 May 2025
The 2022/23 and 2023/24 audits of the Water Industry Commission for Scotland - Steps taken to improve financial control
The Director-General also stated that this learning will—
…ensure that the policies are as up to date as possible and in alignment with both the SPFM and Government policy.2The Scottish Parliament. (2024, March 21).
Committee reports
Date published:
24 March 2025
Inquiry into Framework Legislation and Henry VIII powers - Committee consideration, conclusions and recommendations
It also calls on the Scottish Government to allow sufficient time for such scrutiny to take place, and to ensure it keeps lead committees up to date during the policy formulation phase of regulations.
