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Committee reports
Date published:
30 May 2025
Annual Report 2024-25 - The 2023/24 audit of Ferguson Marine Port Glasgow (Holdings) Limited
The Committee took evidence from the Auditor General and Audit Scotland on 16 January 2025 and from FMPG and the Scottish Government on 5 February 2025.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
22 April 2025
Affordable Housing Supply Programme - Affordable Housing Supply Programme budget
Given the Scottish Parliament’s declaration of a national housing emergency in May 2024, and additional resources allocated for Scotland as a result of the UK Government’s Budget, pressure had mounted on the Scottish Government to increase the affordable housing budget for 2025-26.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
6 December 2024
Scottish Budget 2025-26 - Public service reform
Public service reform
The need for public service reform has been highlighted by many stakeholders for many years, but progress is still hard to see. Audit Scotland has noted that “there is no evidence of large-scale change on the ground” and the Parliament’s Finance and Public Administration Committee has expressed some frustration around the lack of any...
Committee reports
Date published:
4 December 2024
Subordinate Legislation Considered by the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee on 3 December 2024 - Scrutiny of instruments under the Committee's remit: instrument drawn to the attention of the Parliament
Scrutiny of instruments under the Committee's remit: instrument drawn to the attention of the Parliament
Burial (Applications and Register) (Scotland) Regulations 2024 (SSI 2024/334)
The purpose of the instrument is to make provision about who may make applications for burials and what information should be included in those applications.
Committees
Last updated:
22 November 2024
Minutes
Minutes.
34th Meeting, 2022
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee, Criminal Justice Committee and Social Justice and Social Security Committee Joint Meeting
Date: Thursday, November 24, 2022
Session: 6
Location: T4.40 CR2 The Fairfax Somerville Room
Meeting opened at: 08:33am
Meeting closed at: 09:59am
Committee Members Attendees
Audrey Nicoll (Convener)
Miles Briggs
Foysol Choudhury
Katy Clark
Natalie Don
Russell Findlay
Paul O'Kane
Gillian Mackay
Gillian Martin
Sue Webber
Also present
Alex Cole-Hamilton
1 Decision on taking business in private:
The Committees agreed to take item 3 in private.
2 Reducing drug deaths in Scotland...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
19 November 2024
Prisoners (Early Release) (Scotland) Bill - Planning
Planning
The importance of planning was raised as an issue by several respondent organisations. HM Inspectorate of Prisons for Scotland (HMIPS) stated that it was essential that:
implementation plans and the timing of releases are staged at a pace that takes account of the need for community partners to plan safe and effective reintegration into local comm...
Committee reports
Date published:
13 November 2024
Pre-Budget Scrutiny 2025-26: Third sector funding principles - Scottish Government's fairer funding principles
We are committed to ensuring that grant making is continuously improved and that best practice in grant management is mainstreamed across government, whilst understanding that the issue of fairer funding is a cross-government and cross-portfolio commitment.iThe Scottish Government, Policies, Third Sector, Fairer Funding: https://www.gov.scot/policies/third-sector/fairer-funding/
To do this, the Scottish Government has set out several improvements to the way it provides funding to the third sector including:
“improvements to our grant-making arrangements to provide greater clarity and consistency of practice
increasing the number of multi-year agreements to provide stability
proportionate reporting and monitoring
ensuring prompt notification of funding and
reviewing grant conditions”iThe Scottish Government, Policies, Third Sector, Fairer Funding: https://www.gov.scot/policies/third-sector/fairer-funding/
By addressing these issues, the Scottish Government suggests that it is recognising the “sector’s strategic role in enabling the transformation and delivery of person-centred services for the people of Scotland...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
3 October 2024
Post-Legislative Scrutiny in the Scottish Parliament: A Reflection of Session 5 - Standout inquiries
One such inquiry was the Control of Dogs (Scotland) Act 2010 inquiry. It stood out to Members in terms of them having received a lot of correspondence about the issue over a considerable period of time (Interview M1).
Committees
Last updated:
9 September 2024
Priorities in the justice sector and an Action Plan
The Criminal Justice Committee published a report on 10 January 2022 setting out its priorities for the criminal justice sector in Scotland and its Action Plan.
Read Judged on progress: The need for urgent delivery on Scottish justice sector reforms.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
3 September 2024
Contact between grandparents and their grandchildren (republished) - What the court must consider when reaching its decision
Since 2006, the court has also been required to consider various statutory factors associated with abuse (or the risk of abuse) when making court orders.iFamily (Scotland) Act 2006, section 24, which amended section 11 of the 1995 Act.
