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Committee reports
Date published:
2 October 2025
Strengthening committees' effectiveness - Changes in membership
The average turnover of members on committees through Session 6 has been 2.59 (i.e. for every committee seat, there have been 2.59 members in that seat to date this session). Of the 109 committee seats at the start of the session (excluding the dissolved COVID-19 Recovery Committee, and later temporary SPCB Supported Bodies Landscape Committee) 30 members h...
Committee reports
Date published:
30 September 2025
Report on the Proposed National Good Food Nation Plan - School meals and early years nutrition
Professor Lindsay Jaacks from the University of Edinburgh suggested addressing the widespread availability of fast food around schools would require a variety of actions within the Plan:
As far as I am aware, takeaway management zones have been implemented only in England to date. However, the national planning framework will enable similar things to happen...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
1 September 2025
Freedom of Information Reform (Scotland) Bill - Freedom of information officer
The public authority must provide the officer with the resources necessary to carry out their tasks and to maintain up-to-date expertise in freedom of information law and practice.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
18 July 2025
Housing (Scotland) Bill: Consideration prior to Stage 3 - Rent control areas: amount of rent cap
The Scottish Government's consultation on how powers within the Bill could be used to exempt certain types of properties from rent control and the circumstances where rents could be increased above the level of any introduced rent cap was published in April with a closing date of 18 July 2025.1Scottish Government . (2025).
News
Published:
4 July 2025
Urgent investment needed to secure shipyards future
Read the The 2023/24 audit of Ferguson Marine (Port Glasgow) Holdings Limited on the Audit Scotland website
The report highlights:
“a material risk and uncertainty over FMPG’s ability to continue as a going concern, for at least 12 months from the date of signing the accounts. This reflects concerns noted by FMPG management in the performan...
News
Published:
2 July 2025
Holyrood Committee agrees general principles of Dog Theft (Scotland) Bill at Stage 1
The report also says that making the theft of an assistance dog an aggravated crime does not seem a ‘proportionate provision’. To date, no instances of dog theft have been reported, and the court system can already consider the impact of any theft, if a case does come to court.
News
Published:
23 June 2025
Committee acknowledges mixed views on Leases Bill and calls on Government to set out response
The Bill, which is based on work by the Scottish Law Commission (SLC), is focused on the common law rules around tacit relocation, where a commercial lease automatically continues after its expiry date because neither landlord nor tenant has taken steps to end it.
News
Published:
24 March 2025
Draft legislation should generally set out a high degree of detail to ensure proper democratic engagement, Committee finds
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Committee reports
Date published:
17 January 2025
Follow-up inquiry into salmon farming in Scotland - Committee consideration
When asked about the lack of progress in revising the technical standard for Scottish finfish aquaculture, a Marine Directorate official told the Committee that the Scottish Government was “still committed” to revising the standard but that “the work is taking us slightly longer than we expected […] due to the internal decisions on prioritisation that the Government has had to take”. In a letter to the Committee, dated...
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9 January 2025
Inquiry into the Scottish Government's Public Service Reform programme
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