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Official Report
Meeting date:
21 February 2023
Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee 21 February 2023
An issue has been raised on the following instrument.Social Security (Up-rating) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2023 [Draft] Social Security (Up-rating) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2023 [Draft] The instrument provides for an increase in various benefit payments and associated earnings thresholds. The Scottish ministers failed to lay their response to the Scottish Commission on Social Security’s proposals with the instrument, as is required by section 97 of the Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018.
Official Report
Meeting date:
24 March 2022
Public Audit Committee 24 March 2022
Plainly, the two organisations have distinct accountable officer accountabilities, and legitimate professional judgments are exercised by the executive team at Scottish Canals.
Last updated:
19 February 2025
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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...
Official Report
Meeting date:
27 January 2022
Public Audit Committee 27 January 2022
That is the value that is now showing in Transport Scotland’s accounts, which is consolidated into the Scottish Government’s accounts.
Official Report
Meeting date:
2 December 2025
Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee 02 December 2025
We have a number of formal auditing and performance measurement processes, as you would imagine, and we have laid our annual accounts before the Parliament as part of the process of laying the annual report.
Official Report
Meeting date:
5 September 2024
Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee 05 September 2024
Of course, it is not unusual for a bill to lay out that provisions can be made through secondary legislation, and I do not think that that committee has expressed any particular concerns about the provisions that we have set out in that respect.
Committee reports
Date published:
20 January 2021
Subordinate Legislation considered by the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee on 19 January 2021
The Committee noted that there had been a failure to lay the instrument in accordance with section 28(2) of the Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010.
Last updated:
10 August 2022
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Audit Scotland noted that “Although the paper is headed A Review of Capital Accounting, it does not appear to consider these accounting issues to any great extent”.
Last updated:
3 March 2026
HES PAC to CEEAC Committee 2 March 2026
The report explains that— “In line with the Scottish Public Finance Manual, if it becomes clear that the Accountable Officer will not be able to discharge their duties for a period of four or more weeks, then the Principal Accountable Officer should be notified to enable a substitute Accountable Officer to be appointed”.
Last updated:
9 January 2026
MinisterPFToConvener_8Jan26
The convention agreed with Parliament for affirmative instruments is to allow at least 54 days between the laying date and coming into force date (which, in this case is 1 April 2026).
