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Further to my answer at Fair Work, Skills and Training portfolio questions on 25 March 2015, when I confirmed the Living Wage Summit would take place prior to the summer recess, I can confirm the date as 3 June 2015.
*S6M-04616 George Adam on behalf of the Parliamentary Bureau: Parliamentary RecessDates—That the Parliament agrees the following parliamentary recessdates under Rule 2.3.1: 11 to 19 February 2023 (inclusive), 1 to 16 April 2023 (inclu...
*S6M-04616 George Adam on behalf of the Parliamentary Bureau: Parliamentary RecessDates—That the Parliament agrees the following parliamentary recessdates under Rule 2.3.1: 11 to 19 February 2023 (inclusive), 1 to 16 April 2023 (inclu...
It is anticipated the Order will go to the Privy Council early after the summer recess.
Commitments from 2025
Teachers’ Pension Scheme (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (SSI 2025/152)(42nd Report of 2025.
A Human Rights bill was part of the 2023-24 Programme for Government and was set to be introduced before summer recess 2024.
The Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Shirley-Anne Somerville MSP explained in a letter to the Committee in September 2024 that the Scottish Government was still committed to taking forward the Human Rights Bill, but not until the...
It meets weekly when Parliament is sitting (there are recesses when the Parliament does not sit in February, July, August, October and December), and it is challenging for committees to meet outwith set meeting times, both because of restrictions of when committees can meet related to Chamber business, and because MSPs own need to balance committee work wit...
Rule 2.1.3 states:
A sitting day is any day when the office of the Clerk is open but not when the Parliament is in recess or dissolved. The Parliament shall decide, on a motion of the Parliamentary Bureau, the days on which the office of the Clerk is to be open.
Under the Continuity Act, when an improvement plan is laid the Scottish Parliament then has 40 days (not including any period of recess or dissolution of more than 4 days) to resolve if it should be approved.
In the longer term, the Scottish Government has also committed to introduce a housing bill as early as possible after the summer recess which will contain some form of longer-term rent control.