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Committee reports
Date published:
29 October 2024
National Outcomes: Response to the Review of Outcomes and Indicators relating to the Scottish Government's International Work - Experience of other sub-states
The offices world-wide promoted “trade and investment” and were connected to a “network of global development aid”, also “a network with the Basque diaspora” which was “involved in the promotion of the Basque language and culture”.
Committee reports
Date published:
9 September 2024
Post-legislative scrutiny of the Social Care (Self-directed Support) (Scotland) Act 2013: Phase 2 - Data collection
It is a matter of having the right space for looking at the data in a collective way. That means developing an understanding from conversation, rather than just from observation, where we say, “We see this” and draw a conclusion.
Committee reports
Date published:
30 April 2024
Legislative Consent Memorandum (LCM) on the Victims and Prisoners Bill - Annexe A: Written submissions
However, and for the avoidance of doubt, our views extend to the following areas:
a) Accountability: To truly be an arms-length body, the Infected Blood Compensation Authority (“IBCA” or “the scheme”) must be accountable to Parliament, not a Minister or Department.
b) Chair: A High Court judge (or equivalent) must be appointed as the Chair of the IBCA.
c) Support schemes: The four nations’ financial support schemes must be kept separate from IBCA, retaining all their respective devolution features (e.g. self-declaration/assessment in the Scottish scheme) and must be guaranteed “for life”.
d) Conflation: following on from above, support payments must not be conflated with compensation payments and must be explicitly segregated legislatively in the proposed bill.
e) Participation: Infected and affected people must be immediately involved in all stages of establishing the new compensation body.
f) Hepatitis B: chronic HBV victims must be immediately included for interim compensation.
g) Responsibility: All governance, management, structural, operational, organisational development...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
25 April 2024
Intergovernmental activity update Q1 2024 - UK Internal Market Act exclusions
Look out for: potential further developments over coming quarters
On 20 March 2024, the Office for the Internal Market (‘OIM’) published its second annual report on the operation of the internal market for 2023-24.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
14 March 2024
The Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Bill: Consideration ahead of Stage 3 - Licensing of land for killing and taking of certain birds (grouse moor licensing)
amendment agreed
An amendment by Jim Fairlie MSP was agreed, adding how medicated grit is used as part of land management to a non-exhaustive list of areas that may be included in the code of practice for grouse moor management, to be developed by NatureScot. Amendment 83 was agreed without division.
Committee reports
Date published:
8 February 2024
Report on the Legislative Consent Memorandum for the Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill
The Committee asked the Minister how the Scottish Government views the opportunities created by the CPTTP, particularly opportunities for increasing exports of Scotch whisky to developing markets due to potential reduction in tariffs, and their impact on the Scottish economy.
Committee reports
Date published:
19 December 2023
Report on the Legislative Consent Memorandum and the supplementary Legislative Consent Memorandum for the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill
The Committee acknowledges the Minister for Small Business, Innovation, Tourism and Trade's commitment to keep the Parliament updated on any developments in relation to such matters, particularly where the Secretary of State can act unilaterally within devolved competence.
Committee reports
Date published:
12 September 2023
Embedding Public Participation in the Work of the Parliament - Theme 7: Strengthening trust in the Parliament
For example, the Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee is using a deliberative approach as part of its 2024-25 pre-budget scrutiny, which involves citizens developing questions to be asked of the Scottish Government by the Committee.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
14 June 2023
Victims, Witnesses, and Justice Reform (Scotland) Bill - Review and consultation
The review report (p 118) went on to recommend consideration of piloting rape trials without juries:
Consideration should be given to developing a time-limited pilot of single judge rape trials to ascertain their effectiveness and how they are perceived by complainers, accused and lawyers, and to enable the issues to be assessed in a practical rather than a...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
21 September 2022
SPICe Bill Summaries - Session 5 - UK Withdrawal from the European Union (Legal Continuity) (Scotland) Bill
To achieve this, the Bill proposed three main things:
to retain in domestic law EU law currently operating in devolved areas
to give the Scottish Ministers the powers needed to ensure that devolved law continued to operate effectively after UK withdrawal
to give the Scottish Ministers the power to, where appropriate, ensure that Scotland's devolved laws keeps pace after UK withdrawal with developments in EU law.
Provisions of the Bill
The Bill set out to ensure continuity of Scots law on the day the UK left the European Union.
