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Committee reports
Date published:
18 March 2026
Annual report of the Health, Social Care and Sport Committee 2025-26
Right to Addiction Recovery (Scotland) Bill
Douglas Ross MSP introduced the Right to Addiction Recovery (Scotland) Bill on 14 May 2024.
Committee reports
Date published:
23 September 2025
Stage 1 report: Right to Addiction Recovery (Scotland) Bill - Duties of Scottish Ministers
Section 4 places a duty on Ministers to secure delivery of the rights established by the Bill.
Section 5 places a duty on Ministers to report annually on progress towards meeting the requirements of the Bill.
Committee reports
Date published:
23 January 2026
Stage 1 Report on the Prostitution (Offences and Support) (Scotland) Bill - Views on the proposal
Views on the proposal
Many witnesses and written submissions expressed support for the proposal for a statutory right to support in the Bill and pointed to its potential benefits.
Official Report
Meeting date:
24 November 2022
Meeting of the Parliament 24 November 2022
The right to addiction recovery bill would guarantee access to treatment for everyone who needs it.
Committee reports
Date published:
16 January 2026
Inquiry into the harm caused by substance misuse in Scottish Prisons - Recommendations
SPS and the NHS should expand anti-stigma and recovery-champion training for all staff, recognising recovery as a central goal of the prison system.
Official Report
Meeting date:
18 March 2025
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee 18 March 2025
Right to Addiction Recovery (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1 The next item on our agenda is an evidence session on the Right to Addiction Recovery (Scotland) Bill.
Committees
Published:
5 August 2021
Session 6 priorities
As part of this, the Transvaginal Mesh Removal (Cost Reimbursement) (Scotland) Bill was introduced on 23 June and it is my hope, given the difficult circumstances that people who have paid for private surgery may find themselves in, that this Bill will receive Royal Assent as ...
Committee reports
Date published:
16 January 2026
Inquiry into the harm caused by substance misuse in Scottish Prisons - Culture and stigma
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The Committee heard that recovery activity exists across the prison estate (including recovery spaces, peer mentors and third-sector programmes), and that the Scottish Prison Service now has designated leads to progress this work.
Last updated:
16 March 2022
Chamber_Minutes_20220316
Russell Findlay moved amendment S6M-03625.1— As an amendment to motion S6M-03625 in the name of Keith Brown (A Person- centred, Trauma-informed Public Health Approach to Substance Use in the Justice System), leave out from “drugs deaths” to end and insert “the high number of drug deaths in Scotland is a national shame; regrets that drug-related deaths are 3.5 times that of the UK as a whole; notes with concern that spending on drug and alcohol services is difficult to track and needs to be more transparent; agrees with Audit Scotland that more focus is needed on addressing the root causes of drug and alcohol dependency; supports Audit Scotland’s conclusion that more could be done to join up work and funding streams to demonstrate that they are collectively improving outcomes; agrees that the possession of class A drugs is a serious offence and should not be dealt with through warnings as it makes the police’s job tackling drug dealing more difficult; reinforces the commitment to continue to improve support for people leaving prison, including access to community services upon liberation, and throughcare; welcomes the decision by the Chief Constable to roll out the carriage of naloxone across Police Scotland and the support of officers to help preserve life and keep people safe; recognises that the Scottish Government’s effective decriminalisation of class B and C drugs in 2016-17 has resulted in an increase in the number caught possessing such drugs; understands that admissions to psychiatric hospitals among cannabis users has soared since the effective decriminalisation of that drug; determines that access to high-quality drug treatment, rehabilitation and recovery services at appropriate points in the justice system, including in prison and police care, is vital; welcomes Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party proposals for a Right to Recovery Bill, which would provide a statutory right to addiction and recovery treatment services; supports the principle that individuals seeking addiction and/or substance misuse treatment should be able to quickly access their preferred treatment option, and regrets the Scottish Government’s refusal to participate in Project ADDER, which is designed to tackle addiction and supply of illegal substances.”
Official Report
Meeting date:
13 June 2024
Meeting of the Parliament 13 June 2024
On the question of the proposed right to addiction recovery (Scotland) bill, I have indicated that I will happily meet Douglas Ross to discuss it.
