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Official Report
Meeting date:
7 May 2019
Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform Committee 07 May 2019
There was an earlier question about negative carbon emissions. That begins to get us into that subject. We are not going to recommend specific projects in our advice to the cabinet secretary, and we are not going to get into a trade-off at the project level, although we may get into a trade-off at the types-of-infrastructure level.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
19 May 2026
Explainer: how devolution works - Intergovernmental activity
Intergovernmental activity
Intergovernmental activity refers to work between the UK Government and the devolved governments (i.e., the Scottish Government, the Welsh Government and the Northern Ireland Executive).
SPICe briefings
Date published:
10 January 2025
Getting the inactive active: Barriers to physical activity and their potential policy solutions - Geographical variations
The relationship between living in urban and rural areas of Scotland and children’s physical activity and sedentary levels: a country-wide cross-sectional analysis.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
3 May 2024
Sport in Scotland: An Overview of Legislation, Governance, Policy and Funding - Sportscotland's Role in Funding
This investment is utilised to contribute to building towards achieving Active Scotland outcomes, deliverable against various SGB-specific development and performance outcome measures.
Committee reports
Date published:
8 November 2020
Green Recovery Inquiry - Report - Transport
The Committee recommends transport budgets and fiscal incentives are targeted at reducing demand for travel by car and encouraging the use of active and sustainable modes, e.g. prioritising investment in active and sustainable travel infrastructure rather than additional road capacity.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
25 January 2018
Historical Sexual Offences (Pardons and Disregards) (Scotland) Bill - Executive Summary
It covers offences which:
were directly discriminatory - such as the criminalisation of activity that would be legal if opposite-sex partners engaged in the same activity
could be used in a discriminatory matter - such as breach of the peace.
Official Report
Meeting date:
3 November 2015
Welfare Reform Committee 03 November 2015
That might well be the case if the company concerned is a small or medium-sized company whose capacity is already stretched. The feedback that we get is that, quite often, people pick up leads through such activity.
Last updated:
4 March 2026
Amnesty International UK 26 February 2026
The Scottish Parliament’s Criminal Justice Committee has proactively engaged with the SPA on this issue and while it is likely that a committee with a similar remit would lead on scrutiny of any plans or legislation next session, the EHRCJ’s successor committee should actively seek involvement in scrutiny. Anti-SLAPP legislation – In November 2025 the Scott...
Last updated:
23 February 2026
CPG Minute Ukraine Wednesday 19 November 2025
. • He emphasised the role of art and culture during crisis, advocating for two-way cultural exchange between Scotland and Ukraine. • Recent activities included teaching a Master’s course on borderlands, introducing Scottish and Ukrainian poetry, and collaborative performance-based learning. • Future cooperation was discussed, including low-cost cultural co...
Last updated:
18 February 2026
SPBill66BS062026
Children (Withdrawal from Religious Education and Amendment of UNCRC Compatibility Duty) (Scotland) Bill [AS PASSED] An Act of the Scottish Parliament to make provision about the involvement of a pupil in a decision to withdraw the pupil from religious observance in schools; and to make provision about circumstances where incompatibility with the requirements of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Incorporation) (Scotland) Act 2024 is not unlawful. 5 P ART 1 P UPIL ’ S INVOLVEMENT IN DECISION ABOUT WITHDRAWAL FROM RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION OR RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCE 1 Pupil’s involvement in decision about withdrawal from religious instruction or religious observance 10 (1) The Education (Scotland) Act 1980 is modified as follows. 1 (1A) In section 8 (religious instruction), after subsection (1) insert— “(1A) With effect from the day on which section 1(1A) of the Children (Withdrawal from Religious Education and Amendment of UNCRC Compatibility Duty) (Scotland) Act 2026 comes into force, the continuation of the custom described 15 in subsection (1) is to be read so as not to include any right for parents to elect that their children should not receive instruction in religion.”. (2) In section 9 (conscience clause)— (za) the words “from any instruction in religious subjects and” are repealed, (zb) for the words “his being withdrawn from any instruction in religious subjects” 20 substitute “withdrawal from any such religious observance”, (a) the existing text becomes subsection (1), (b) after that subsection insert— SP Bill 66B Session 6 (2026) 2 Children (Withdrawal from Religious Education and Amendment of UNCRC Compatibility Duty) (Scotland) Bill Part 1—Pupil’s involvement in decision about withdrawal from religious instruction or religious observance “(2) The exercise of the right under subsection (1) for a parent to withdraw a pupil from religious observance in a school is subject to section 9A. (3) Where a pupil is withdrawn from religious observance, the education authority or, in the case of a grant-aided school, the managers, must ensure that the 5 pupil is provided with suitable and purposeful educational activity...
