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Official Report
Meeting date:
2 December 2025
Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee 02 December 2025
Even a cursory analysis of the figures in the annual report will show that the pressures are significant. The figure from the pre-pandemic period is used as a baseline by the organisation.
Official Report
Meeting date:
7 October 2025
Meeting of the Parliament 07 October 2025
The nature of that business is changing, even though the overall volume has returned to pre-pandemic levels. Initiatives such as the £33 million investment in the digital evidence sharing capability that is being rolled out will support the bill’s provisions on digital productions.
Official Report
Meeting date:
2 April 2025
Meeting of the Parliament 02 April 2025
She recollects saying that she found me to be opinionated and cocky, which just goes to show that, sometimes, Christina could be wrong as well. Laughter. In 2007, at a pre-election rally for SNP candidates in Napier University, I just thought that she was a stunningly attractive woman and way, way out of my league.
Official Report
Meeting date:
20 February 2025
Meeting of the Parliament 20 February 2025
The publication in 1996 of “Public Services and Private Finance: A Partnership for Scotland” gave the game away by outlining the scope for higher profits that the private sector would have access to. Exemplifying the worst of the pre-devolution political order, PFI was imposed despite widespread opposition from Scottish civic society, trade unions and every...
Official Report
Meeting date:
3 December 2024
Meeting of the Parliament 03 December 2024
; believes that Scotland should be a highly desirable country to live, work, study, visit, trade and invest; understands that the Scottish beer and pub sector contributes significantly to Brand Scotland; welcomes the inquiry carried out by MSPs, who took written and oral evidence from a wide section of witnesses, including breweries, pub operators, trade groups and research organisations; understands that witnesses told the inquiry about the dynamic and vibrant contribution that the sector makes to communities and the economy across Scotland, including in the South Scotland region, with over 100 breweries and 4,340 pubs employing 65,000 people and contributing £1.8 billion in wider economic benefits; notes what it sees as the largely unacknowledged and unique benefits that Scotland’s pubs and breweries provide, including preventing social exclusion, boosting tourism, supporting local festivals, music, arts and sport, and acting as a catalyst for local events and charity fundraising; further notes, with concern, reports that Scotland’s pubs are closing at a faster rate than elsewhere in the UK, with investment being diverted as, it understands, a lack of certainty makes it difficult to plan ahead, including as a result of regulatory proposals, complex and time consuming planning processes, employment challenges and business rates; notes that the report calls for a new hospitality strategy that aligns with Brand Scotland, which includes a review of business rates, the promotion of employment opportunities and a recognition of the need for a period of regulatory calm, and which should be developed in partnership with the sector, trade representatives and the Scottish Government, and further notes the calls for MSPs to commit to implementing these changes for the social and economic wellbeing of the Scottish hospitality sector. 17:02 Apologies for being slightly pre...
Official Report
Meeting date:
3 December 2024
Meeting of the Parliament 03 December 2024
; believes that Scotland should be a highly desirable country to live, work, study, visit, trade and invest; understands that the Scottish beer and pub sector contributes significantly to Brand Scotland; welcomes the inquiry carried out by MSPs, who took written and oral evidence from a wide section of witnesses, including breweries, pub operators, trade groups and research organisations; understands that witnesses told the inquiry about the dynamic and vibrant contribution that the sector makes to communities and the economy across Scotland, including in the South Scotland region, with over 100 breweries and 4,340 pubs employing 65,000 people and contributing £1.8 billion in wider economic benefits; notes what it sees as the largely unacknowledged and unique benefits that Scotland’s pubs and breweries provide, including preventing social exclusion, boosting tourism, supporting local festivals, music, arts and sport, and acting as a catalyst for local events and charity fundraising; further notes, with concern, reports that Scotland’s pubs are closing at a faster rate than elsewhere in the UK, with investment being diverted as, it understands, a lack of certainty makes it difficult to plan ahead, including as a result of regulatory proposals, complex and time consuming planning processes, employment challenges and business rates; notes that the report calls for a new hospitality strategy that aligns with Brand Scotland, which includes a review of business rates, the promotion of employment opportunities and a recognition of the need for a period of regulatory calm, and which should be developed in partnership with the sector, trade representatives and the Scottish Government, and further notes the calls for MSPs to commit to implementing these changes for the social and economic wellbeing of the Scottish hospitality sector. 17:02 Apologies for being slightly pre...
Official Report
Meeting date:
26 November 2024
Meeting of the Parliament 26 November 2024
Prisoners do not serve their full sentence, but now the public will be even more alarmed because prisoners will serve less of their sentence—only 40 per cent of it. The issue of pre-release planning and reducing offending was an important part of the stage 2 debate, and I am grateful to those who took part in it.
Official Report
Meeting date:
18 September 2024
Meeting of the Parliament 18 September 2024
We were then gifted Liz Truss, who—with the stroke of a pen, or a tap at the keyboard—plunged the markets into chaos, panicked the banks and sent inflation into orbit. Pre-election, the First Minister and the Office for Budget Responsibility warned of an £18 billion black hole in the Treasury.
Official Report
Meeting date:
11 September 2024
Criminal Justice Committee 11 September 2024
My assumption is that a marginal cost or an additional cost would be refunded by the Commonwealth Games Federation. We could pick that up in our pre-budget scrutiny, if it would be helpful.
Official Report
Meeting date:
29 May 2024
Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee 29 May 2024
We have been through it all. I do not want to pre-empt the committee, but I do not think that, at this stage, colleagues think there is any smoking gun in relation to the non-completion of the road.
