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Committee reports
Date published:
9 June 2025
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee report on the Deposit and Return Scheme for Scotland Amendment Regulations 2025 and the Deposit and Return Scheme for Scotland (Designation of Scheme Administrator) Order 2025 - Previous consideration
Previous consideration
The laying of these Regulations and the Order follow abortive efforts to set up a Scottish DRS that would have started earlier than DRS in the rest of the UK and would have been in some respects different from the one intended for England.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
6 March 2025
The Leases (Automatic Continuation etc.) (Scotland) Bill - Part 3 - Miscellaneous provisions relating to the start, end or length of a lease
Section 27
Section 27 places a requirement on a party to a lease, in certain circumstances, to provide the other party with a UK postal address to which termination documents may be sent.
Section 28
Section 28 lays down what the effect is of a party failing to to notify a United Kingdom address under section 27 of the Bill, and what the remedies are in such...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
6 September 2024
Climate Change (Emissions Reduction Targets)(Scotland) Bill - Related UK Government climate legislation developments
In July 2022, a legal challenge brought by Friends of the Earth found that the Net Zero Strategy brought forward by the UK Government in October 2021 was insufficient to meet the Sixth Carbon Budget:
The Net Zero Strategy of 19 October 2021 failed to comply with the obligation in section 14(1) of the Climate Change Act 2008 to set out proposals and policies for meeting the carbon budgets for the current and future budgetary periods’
‘there are significant delivery risks and little or no headroom particularly for later carbon budgets
The UK Government was required to lay...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
21 June 2024
Circular Economy (Scotland) Bill: Consideration prior to Stage 3 - New sections on flytipping (sections 9A and 9B)
Agreement to discuss a national reporting requirement in advance of Stage 3
An amendment was also proposed by Murdo Fraser MSP (amendment 204, not moved) which would have required Scottish Ministers to lay an annual report in the Scottish Parliament including data on flytipping incidences and enforcement.
Committee reports
Date published:
15 September 2023
Stage 1 Report on the Trusts and Succession (Scotland) Bill - Decision-making by trusts
She said, “that section 12(3)(a) could mean the Trustees cannot fulfil their fiduciary duty if one of a large family blocks their decision making.”viWritten evidence, Alice Pringle
Jones Whyte,viiWritten evidence, Jones Whyte Turcan ConnellivWritten evidence, Turcan Connell and the Faculty of AdvocatesixWritten evidence, Faculty of Advocates all suggested that the term 'personal interest' should be defined more clearly to avoid uncertainty and possible litigation on the meaning of the term and to make the legislation more accessible to the lay...
Committee reports
Date published:
10 January 2022
Judged on progress: The need for urgent delivery on Scottish justice sector reforms - Judge only trials
This should include systems where there is a judge with lay assessors. This might provide an alternative system as:
“That means still having some form of citizen participation but ensuring that those citizens have had some training in how to assess evidence.”
Committees
Published:
7 December 2021
UK subordinate legislation - The Approved Country Lists (Animals and Animal Products) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2021
We will, in accordance with the protocol, advise you when the final SI is laid and advise you as to whether the final SI is in keeping with the terms of this notification.
The UK Government expects to lay the Instrument on 16 December 2021.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
19 August 2021
Animal health and welfare - Subject Profile - Key policy, legislation, roles and responsibilities
Key legislation includes:
The Animal Health and Welfare (Scotland) Act 2006, which provides for the welfare of all 'protected animals', that is a commonly domesticated animal, 'under the control of man' or not living in a wild state;
The Welfare of Farmed Animals (Scotland) Regulations 2010, which set out the duties of any person responsible for a farmed animal, including specific requirements for certain species, such as laying...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
19 August 2021
Land Use and Rural Policy: Subject Profile - Strategic Land Use
Box 1: The duty to produce a Land Use Strategy
Section 57(1), (2), and (3) of the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 state:
57 Duty to produce a land use strategy
(1) The Scottish Ministers must, no later than 31 March 2011, lay a land use strategy before the Scottish Parliament.
(2) The strategy must, in particular, set out—
(a)the Scottish Ministers' obje...
Committee reports
Date published:
2 March 2021
Report on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on equalities and human rights - People requiring social care support
People requiring social care support
Age Scotland was “extremely concerned that from mid-March care at home packages were removed or severely reduced almost overnight from older people across Scotland”.iAge Scotland, Written Evidence They recognised social care providers faced challenging decisions, however, they believed providers did not sufficiently consider whether families could provide the care that was being withdrawn.iAge Scotland, Written Evidence Age Scotland has called for the Scottish Government to further research the excess deaths of people with dementia during the peak months of lockdown, which found deaths to be 24.5% higher between April and June 2020 than the previous five year average.iAge Scotland, Written Evidence
Social Work Scotland (SWS) and Scottish Association of Social Workers (SASW) commented COVID-19 has “lay...
