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Official Report
Meeting date:
18 September 2024
Education, Children and Young People Committee 18 September 2024
First, Ken Muir’s report clearly recommended that the inspector should be accountable to Parliament, but the bill makes it accountable to the Scottish ministers.
Official Report
Meeting date:
24 May 2022
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee 24 May 2022
ScotRail Trains Ltd will have its accounts treated as part of the Scottish Rail Holdings group accounts, as it is a subsidiary company under section 479A of the Companies Act 2006.
Last updated:
19 February 2025
SPBill59S062025
Natural Environment (Scotland) Bill [AS INTRODUCED] An Act of the Scottish Parliament to make provision about setting targets relating to biodiversity; to confer on the Scottish Ministers a power to modify certain legislation in relation to environmental impact assessments and habitats; to make provision in relation to national parks; to make provision in connection with the management of deer; and for connected purposes. 5 P ART 1 T ARGETS FOR IMPROVING BIODIVERSITY 1 Targets for improving biodiversity (1) The Nature Conservation (Scotland) Act 2004 is modified as follows. (2) Before section 1, insert— 10 “General duty to further conservation of biodiversity”. 1 (3) After section 2A, insert— “Duties in respect of biodiversity targets 2B Purpose of setting targets The targets to be set under this Part are to provide a means of supporting and 15 measuring the progress being made in respect of— (a) the implementation of the biodiversity strategy designated under section 2(1), and (b) generally, the duty under section 1. 2C Duty to set targets 20 (1) The Scottish Ministers may, by regulations, make provision for and in connection with targets in relation to— (a) any matter which relates to any of the following topics— (i) the condition or extent of any habitat, (ii) the status of threatened species, SP Bill 59 Session 6 (2025) 2 Natural Environment (Scotland) Bill Part 1—Targets for improving biodiversity (iii) the environmental conditions for nature regeneration, and (b) any other matter relating to the restoration or regeneration of biodiversity as they consider appropriate. (2) The Scottish Ministers must exercise the power under subsection (1) so as 5 to— (a) set at least one target in respect of each of the topics described in paragraph (a) of that subsection, and (b) specify the manner in which, or indicators against which, progress toward and achievement of the target being set is to be measured. 10 (3) A draft of a Scottish statutory instrument (or drafts of Scottish statutory 1 instruments) containing regulations setting a target for a matter relating to each of the topics in subsection (1)(a) must be laid before the Scottish Parliament within 12 months of section 1 of the Natural Environment (Scotland) Act 2026 coming into force. 15 (4) Regulations under this section are subject to the affirmative procedure (but see also section 2F). 2D Duties in relation to meeting targets (1) It is the duty of the Scottish Ministers to ensure that each target set under section 2C is met. 20 (2) For the purpose of this section, a target is met if the measures or indicators specified in relation to the target in question are met, or as the case may be, achieved. (3) Subsection (4) applies if— (a) a target is not met, or 25 (b) the Scottish Ministers believe that it is no longer possible for a target to be met. (4) The Scottish Ministers must— (a) lay...
Committees
Date published:
22 May 2017
Stage One Report on the Child Poverty (Scotland) Bill
The first is that the Scottish Ministers must lay and publish three delivery plans.
Committee reports
Date published:
9 February 2022
Subordinate Legislation Considered by the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee on 8 February 2022 - Scrutiny of instruments under the Committee’s remit: instruments drawn to the attention of the lead committee
The Committee draws the instrument to the attention of the Parliament on reporting ground (j) for failure to lay the instrument in accordance with the laying requirements in section 28(2) of the Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010.
Committee reports
Date published:
25 January 2022
Subordinate Legislation Considered by the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee on 25 January 2022 - Scrutiny of instruments under the Committee’s remit: instruments drawn to the attention of the lead committee
The Committee draws the instrument to the attention of the Parliament on reporting ground (j) for failure to lay the instrument in accordance with the laying requirements in section 28(2) of the Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010.
Committee reports
Date published:
6 September 2019
Subordinate legislation considered by the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee on 3 September 2019 - Plant Health (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Order 2019 (SSI 2019/242) (Rural Economy and Connectivity)
This does not respect the requirement that at least 28 days should elapse between the laying of an instrument which is subject to the negative procedure and the coming into force of that instrument.
Last updated:
26 June 2023
Police Complaints Background Note
The Committee was also told that written evidence suggested that “people are unsure about who the PIRC is accountable to.” The Committee requested that the Cabinet Secretary for Justice confirms who the PIRC is accountable to and recommended that consideration 19 be given as to whether the lines of accountability are suitably transparent. 23.
Committee reports
Date published:
2 October 2025
Strengthening committees' effectiveness - Gender Sensitive Audit Recommendations
This approach will place responsibility on the Bureau, and ultimately the Parliament, when agreeing committee membership that takes gender representation into account.
Last updated:
6 June 2025
SPBill73DPMS062025accessible
Section 19 of the Bill provides Scottish Ministers with the power to set accounting periods and to require self- assessed SBSL returns to be submitted and tax paid in relation to those accounting periods.
