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However, where ex-council homes were sold under the right to buy, there are no responsibilities incumbent on local authorities for the maintenance of those properties, which falls to the owner.
The PhD by Ana Adao, discussed by you and your colleagues in 2023, and in the second of those SPICe blogs, has now been completed, and it is entirely damning of Marine Directorate’s approach.
Retrieved from https://digitalpublications.parliament.scot/Committees/Report/SPPAC/2022/11/29/02d73591-f3fc-4ac8-9a4a-f51698d95ca5#Introduction [accessed 29 May 2025] Proxy voting was implemented in other legislatures in the UK (and internationally) to ensure the continuity of parliamentary and legislative business through periods of public health restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic.iThe Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee published a SPICe...
This is a reduction of 10.3 percentage points compared to the 2021 election. The SPICe blog notes that the 53.2% turnout in 2026 is similar to the average of 54.9% for Scottish Parliament elections.
Since the start of this Session it has been the Committee's standard practice to seek a Government response and SPICe briefing ahead of the first consideration for each petition.
Committee reports
Date published:
27 February 2026
UK Government
Climate change policy is a complex mix of reserved and devolved policy. SPICe blogs by Professor Colin Reid, a Committee adviser, explore this complexity both in terms of the general framework of devolutionThe climate jigsaw part one: the general framework of devolution and climate change and also by sector in detail.The climate jigsaw part t...
Further information and background on Part 2 is set out in the SPICe Bill briefing.
Amendments by Mark Ruskell MSP were agreed (by division) which removed sections 2, 3 and 4 from the Bill, effectively removing Part 2 from the Bill.
Retrieved from https://www.parliament.scot/-/media/files/committees/social-justice-and-social-security-committee/correspondence/wellbeing-bill/spice-summary-wellbeing-and-sustainable-development-bill.pdf
Scottish Environment LINK described the general function to ‘promote’ as being “appropriate”, to ensure there is a distinction between the Commissioner's r...
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