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Published:
16 January 2026
Committee backs Bill to recognise certain digital assets as property in Scots law
Economy and Fair Work Convener, Daniel Johnson MSP, said:
“In recent decades, digital assets have increasingly become part of our economy.
News
Published:
19 December 2025
Criminal Justice Committee say the justice sector needs £400 million more in funding or unacceptable cuts and a reduction in services are inevitable
Criminal Justice Committee Convener, Audrey Nicoll MSP, said:
“The scenario facing the justice sector is gravely concerning and without additional funding of £400 million it will face unacceptable cuts to frontline services.
Committee reports
Date published:
19 December 2025
Stage 1 report on the Wellbeing and Sustainable Development (Scotland) Bill - Establishment
Retrieved from https://www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-committees/official-report/search-what-was-said-in-parliament/SJSS-30-10-2025?meeting=16653
Sarah Boyack MSP explained that the intention of the combination of the duty, the definition and the commissioner was to “get on with delivering that systemic change”:
Having a commissioner in Scotland with teeth...
News
Published:
21 November 2025
Culture spending uplift helps sector stability, but may not be driving improved outcomes
Reiterating concerns
Throughout its pre-budget scrutiny, the Committee has considered evidence and the response of the Scottish Government, over the whole period of this session of Parliament, in order to build a longer-term view of culture funding decisions.
In its report, MSPs ask the Scottish Government to explain why it has not delivered 3-year funding ...
News
Published:
10 October 2025
Scottish Parliament Committee seek views on Bill which seeks to regulate cosmetic procedures industry
PDO (Polydioxanone), PLLA (Poly-L-Lactic Acid), cat or fox eye thread lift
Speaking as the call for views was launched, Clare Haughey MSP, Convener of the Health, Social Care and Sport Committee, said:
“Our Committee is aware that the use and administering of non-surgical procedures for cosmetic purposes has grown hugely in popularity over the last f...
News
Published:
30 September 2025
Holyrood Committee backs proposals to set the first legally-binding biodiversity targets in Scotland
The Bill also provides Scottish Ministers with powers to amend environmental impact assessment legislation and the habitats regulations; make changes to National Parks legislation to modernise how they are managed; and make detailed changes to wild deer legislation, to reduce the impacts of deer on Scotland’s natural environment.
Committee Convener Finlay Carson MSP said:
“The rate of nature loss in Scotland over recent decades is deeply concerning and it’s clear that the current approach being taken to halt or reverse biodiversity declines has failed.
News
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8 September 2025
Holyrood Committee meets Wishaw hospital staff and families amid neonatal downgrading proposals
The petition PE2099: Stop the proposed centralisation of specialist neonatal units in NHS Scotland is currently being considered by the Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee.
MSPs from the Committee met petitioner Lynne McRitchie and families whose newborns received care at Wishaw’s neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), before touring th...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
1 September 2025
Freedom of Information Reform (Scotland) Bill - Freedom of information officer
Retrieved from https://www.parliament.scot/-/media/files/legislation/proposed-members-bills/final-version--foi-consultation-summary.pdf [accessed 17 July 2025]
The Member, Katy Clark MSP, provides the rationale and policy objective behind the provision in the Policy Memorandum to the Bill.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
31 July 2025
The intergovernmental relations 'reset': one year on - Energy and net zero
In a Scottish Parliament debate in April 2025, Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes MSP argued that while the UK Government's "engagement was good from the very beginning", it had not taken an "equally decisive and interventionist approach to Grangemouth" as it had in response to the prospective closure of the British Steel plant in Scunthorpe.
News
Published:
31 July 2025
Untold story of how one of Scotland’s most talked about public buildings was created, unveiled in new Holyrood exhibition
Deputy Presiding Officer, Annabelle Ewing MSP said:
“20 years on from the opening of the Scottish Parliament, people in Scotland have embraced this building and the vision that Enric Miralles had for it.
