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SPICe briefings
Date published:
16 December 2025
Scottish Parliament Statistics 2024-2025 - Abbreviations
Abbreviations
AGS - Auditor General for Scotland
Alba – The Alba Party
asp - Act of Scottish Parliament
BIPA - British Irish Parliamentary Assembly
C - Constituency
CEEAC - Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee
CJ - Criminal Justice Committee
CLRAE - Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of Europe
Con - Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
CoR - Committee of the Regions
COSLA - Convention of Scottish Local Authorities
CPA - Commonwealth Parliamentary Association
CPG – Cross Party Group
CPPP - Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee
DPLR - Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee
DPO – Deputy Presiding Officer
ECYP - Education, Children and Young People Committee
EFW - Economy and Fair Work Committee
EHRCJ - Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee
EIR – Environmental Information Request
EU - European Union
FE - Further Education
FMQs - First Minister’s Questions
FOI - Freedom of Information
FOI(S)A – Freedom of Information Scotland Act 2002
FPA - Finance and Public Administration Committee
G - Government Bill
Green - Scottish Green Party
h:mins - hours and minutes
HE – Higher Education
Hrs - Hours
HSCS - Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
IoD - Institute of Directors
Lab - Scottish Labour Party
LCM - Legislative Consent Memorandum
LD - Scottish Liberal Democrats
LGBTI+ - Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex +
LGHP - Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
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SPICe briefings
Date published:
22 September 2025
Men's mental health in Scotland - Prevalence of loneliness and social isolation
Earlier research has estimated that between 15-30% of the population are impacted by chronic loneliness, while as many as 60-80% experience loneliness occasionally3Holt-Lunstad, J., Smith, T.B., Baker, M., Harris, T., & Stephenson, D. (2015).
SPICe briefings
Date published:
24 June 2025
Neurodevelopmental Pathways and Waiting Times in Scotland - Drivers of increasing demand for neurodevelopmental assessments
While the best estimates of the prevalence of neurodevelopmental conditions have changed through time1Miller, J.S., Bilder, D., Farley, M., Coon, H., Pinborough-Zimmerman, J., Jenson, W., … McMahon, W.M. (2013).
Petitions
Petition published:
25 March 2025
Grant protected status to primitive goat species in the Scottish Borders
Official Report of Meeting 11 February 2026
Written Submissions
PE2151/A: The Wild Goat Conservation Group written submission, 17 April 2025
PE2151/B: Scottish Government written submission, 22 May 2025
PE2151/C: The Wild Goat Conservation Trust written submission, 15 August 2025
PE2151/D: Petitioner written submission, 27 August 2025
PE2151/E: Lynda Graham written submission, 27 August 2025
PE2151/F: Emma Harper MSP written submission, 8 September 2025
PE2151/G: NatureScot written submission, 2 October 2025
PE2151/H: Joint Nature Conservation Committee written submission, 9 October 2025
PE2151/I: Scottish Government written submission, 24 October 2025
PE2151/J: The Wild Goat Conservation Trust written submission, 5 November 2025
PE2151/K: Scottish Fire and Rescue Service written submission, 21 November 2025
PE2151/L: The Wild Goat Conservation Trust written submission, 27 November 2025
PE2151/M...
Committees
Last updated:
12 February 2025
Colleges regionalisation inquiry
View a breakdown of colleges by region
Highlands and Islands
Argyll College UHI
Inverness College UHI
Lews Castle College UHI
Moray College UHI
North Highland College UHI
Orkney College UHI
Perth College UHI
Shetland College UHI
West Highland College UHI
Glasgow
Glasgow Kelvin College
Glasgow Clyde College
City of Glasgow College
Lanarkshire
South Lanarkshire College
New College Lanarkshire
Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire
North East Scotland College
Ayrshire
Ayrshire College
Borders
Borders College
Forth Valley
Forth Valley College
Dumfries and Galloway
Dumfries & Galloway College
Edinburgh and Lothians
Edinburgh College
Fife
Fife College
Tayside
Dundee and Angus College
West
West College Scotland
West Lothian
West Lothian College
Outwith regional arrangements
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SPICe briefings
Date published:
20 December 2024
Local government finance: Budget 2025-26 and provisional allocations to local authorities - Comparing Budgets over the past 13 years
However, for the past two years there have been real terms increases of 4% and 5%:
Table 5: Changes in local government provisional allocation since 2013-14 in real terms (2024-25 prices, £m)Source2013-142025-26Change since 2013-14% changeGeneral resource grant (GRG) 9,256 9,238-18-0.2%NDRI 3,286 3,041 - 245-7.4%Specific resource gran...
Petitions
Petition published:
28 February 2024
Pass a law making exercising a dog in a cemetery an offence
Official Report of Meeting 12 November 2025
Written Submissions
PE2087/A: Scottish Government submission of 27 March 2024
PE2087/B: Scottish Government submission of 24 June 2024
PE2087/C: Glasgow City Council written submission, 10 April 2025
PE2087/D: West Lothian Council written submission, 10 April 2025
PE2087/E: East Lothian Council written submission, 14 April 2025
PE2087/F: East Ayrshire Council written submission, 17 April 2025
PE2087/G: Stirling Council written submission, 23 April 2025
PE2087/H: Midlothian Council written submission, 29 April 2025
PE2087/I: Clackmannanshire Council written submission, 29 April 2025
PE2087/J: West Dunbartonshire Council written submission, 1 May 2025
PE2087/K: Comhairle nan Eilean Siar written submission, 2 May 2025
PE2087/L: Dundee City Council written submission, 5 May 2025
PE2087/M...
Petitions
Petition published:
18 August 2022
Stop motorhomes parking overnight out with formal campsites, caravan parks and Aires
Official Report of Meeting 26 November 2025
Written Submissions
PE1962/A: Scottish Government submission of 21 September 2022
PE1962/B:Maurice MacRae submission of 24 August 2022
PE1962/C: Scottish Government submission of 12 December 2022
PE1962/D: Petitioner submission of 19 May 2023
PE1962/E: Scottish Government submission of 17 August 2023
PE1962/F: Petitioner submission, 18 April 2024
PE1962/G: Petitioner written submission, 23 September 2024
PE1962/H: Scottish Government written submission, 17 March 2025
PE1962/I: Ed Hall written submission, 26 March 2025
PE1962/J: British Holiday & Home Parks Association written submission, 17 April 2025
PE1962/K: Scottish Government written submission, 2 June 2025
PE1962/L: Petitioner written submission, 6 June 2025
PE1962/M...
Committees
Published:
7 February 2022
UK subordinate legislation - The Ivory Prohibitions (Civil Sanctions) Regulations
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SPICe briefings
Date published:
1 February 2022
Citizens' Assemblies - an international comparison - Background to the Citizens' Council
Retrieved from <a href="https://congress.crowd.law/files/Belgian_Sortition_Models.pdf" target="_blank">https://congress.crowd.law/files/Belgian_Sortition_Models.pdf</a> [accessed 7 December 2021] The eventual output of this engagement with G1000 was the design of the "Ostbelgien Model" of a Citizens' Council.4Niessen, C., & Reuchamps, M....
