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Last updated: 17 February 2025

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Supported by: Paul Sweeney*, Bob Doris*, Bill Kidd*, Miles Briggs*, David Torrance*, Jeremy Balfour*, Stuart McMillan*, Stephanie Callaghan*, Marie McNair*, Murdo Fraser*, Annabelle Ewing*, Colin Beattie*, Edward Mountain*, Kevin Stewart*, Audrey Nicoll*, Karen Adam*, Emma Harper*, Tess White*, Fulton MacGregor*, Ruth Maguire*, Annie Wells* *S6M-16374 Paul O'Kane: Barrie McCutcheon and Daughter, Isla, to Take Part in 700-mile Cycle for Doddie Aid Challenge—That the Parliament commends Barrie McCutcheon and his daughter, Isla, from Johnstone, on their planned 700-mile four-day cycle for the Doddie Aid Challenge; understands that the Scottish Fire and Rescue service group commander, based in East and West Dunbartonshire, Argyll and Bute area, and his 18-year-old daughter, will take part in the challenge in February 2025; further understands that they are members of an eight-person cycle team, which will aim to raise money for motor neuron disease (MND); notes that the challenge will take place all over Scotland, starting in Stranraer, and culminating in Edinburgh on 8 February 2025 for the Scotland v...
Last updated: 14 February 2023

BB20220801

S6W-10105 Alex Cole-Hamilton: To ask the Scottish Government how many category (a) purple, (b) red, (c) amber and (d) yellow ambulance call-outs took more than (i) 8, (ii) 10, (iii) 15, (iv) 20, (v) 30, (vi) 60 and (vii) 120 minutes to arrive at the incident in each (A) of the last three calendar years and (B) month in 2022 to date, and what proportion of t...
Last updated: 29 July 2022

BB20220801

S6W-10105 Alex Cole-Hamilton: To ask the Scottish Government how many category (a) purple, (b) red, (c) amber and (d) yellow ambulance call-outs took more than (i) 8, (ii) 10, (iii) 15, (iv) 20, (v) 30, (vi) 60 and (vii) 120 minutes to arrive at the incident in each (A) of the last three calendar years and (B) month in 2022 to date, and what proportion of t...
Last updated: 30 March 2021

Interests of MSPs Act 2006 Form and Content of Written Statement Determination 2017

Is there any relevant additional information that you wish to provide? V OLUNTARY You may choose to provide details in this section of any interest, not falling within any of the previous sections, which you wish to register, perhaps because you consider that the interest might be thought by others to influence your actions.
Last updated: 18 June 2020

SPBill59AS052020

P ART 2 C OLLECTION AND PROCESSING OF DATA 12 Defined terms (1) This section defines certain expressions for the purposes of this Part. 30 (2) “Agricultural activity” has the same meaning as in Article 4(1)(c) of Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 establishing rules for direct payments to farmers under support schemes within the framework of the common agricultural policy. (3) “Animal” means a vertebrate (other than a human) or invertebrate but does not include 35 fish. 8 Agriculture (Retained EU Law and Data) (Scotland) Bill Part 2—Collection and processing of data (4) An “agri-food supply chain” is a supply chain for providing individuals with items of food or drink for personal consumption where the items consist of or include, or have been produced using (directly or indirectly and whether or not exclusively), the whole or part of— 5 (a) anything grown or otherwise produced in carrying on agriculture, (b) any animal kept in carrying on agriculture, (c) any animal or other thing (other than fish) taken from the wild. (5) The persons in an agri-food supply chain are— (a) the individuals referred to in subsection (4) (the “ultimate consumers”), 10 (b) the persons carrying on the agriculture or (as the case may be) taking the things from the wild, and (c) any other person in the supply chain between those persons and the ultimate consumers. (6) The persons closely connected with an agri-food supply chain are— 15 (a) any person supplying seeds, stock, equipment, feed, fertiliser, pesticides, medicines or similar items to the persons referred to in subsection (5)(b) for use in the agriculture or taking, (b) any person providing to the persons referred to in subsection (5)(b) or (c) services relating to— 20 (i) the health of animals or plants involved in the supply chain, (ii) the safety or quality of the food or drink to be provided to the ultimate consumers, (c) any person carrying on activities capable of affecting a matter mentioned in sub- paragraph (i) or (ii) of paragraph (b), and 25 (d) bodies representing persons within paragraphs (b) or (c) of subsection (5) or paragraphs (a), (b) or (c) of this subsection. (7) Activities of the kind mentioned in subsection (6)(c) are to be treated for the purposes of section 13(1) and (2) as connected with the supply chain, but this does not limit the generality of what is meant by “connected” with the supply chain. 30 (8) “Processing”, in relation to information, means an operation or set of operations which is performed on information or on sets of information such as— (a) collection, recording, organisation, structuring or storage, (b) adaptation or alteration, (c) retrieval, consultation or use, 35 (d) disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, (e) alignment or combination, (f) restriction, erasure or destruction, and related expressions such as “processed” are to be construed accordingly. (9) In this section— 40 “agriculture” includes any growing of plants or keeping of animals for the production of food or drink, Agriculture (Retained EU Law and Data) (Scotland) Bill 9 Part 2—Collection and processing of data “plants” includes fungi, “seeds” includes bulbs and other things from which plants are grown. (10) The Scottish Ministers may by regulations amend the definition of “agricultural activity”. 5 (11) Regulations under subsection (10) are subject to the affirmative procedure. 13 Agri-food supply chains: requirement to provide information (1) The Scottish Ministers may require a person in, or closely connected with, an agri-food supply chain to provide information about matters connected with any of the person’s activities connected with the supply chain so far as the activities take place in Scotland. 10 (2) The Scottish Ministers may by regulations impose requirements on persons in, or closely connected with, an agri-food supply chain to provide information about matters connected with any of the persons’ activities connected with the supply chain so far as the activities take place in Scotland. (3) Requirements under subsection (1) or (2) may not be imposed on individuals in the 15 supply chain so far as they are in the supply chain by reason of them, or members of their household, being the ultimate consumers. (4) Requirements under subsection (1) or (2) may not be imposed on persons in relation to any of their activities connected with the supply chain so far as the activity is carried on otherwise than for profit or reward. 20 (5) But subsection (4) does not apply where the activity being carried on otherwise than for profit or reward is capable of affecting a matter mentioned in section 12(6)(b)(i) or (ii). (6) A requirement under subsection (1) must be made in writing. (7) Regulations under subsection (2) are subject to the affirmative procedure. 14 Agricultural activity: requirement to provide information 25 (1) The Scottish Ministers may require a person who carries on an agricultural activity (and who is not a person in, or closely connected with, an agri-food supply chain) to provide information about matters connected with the activity so far as the activity takes place in Scotland. (2) The Scottish Ministers may by regulations impose requirements on persons who carry 30 on an agricultural activity (and who are not persons in, or closely connected with, an agri-food supply chain) to provide information about matters connected with the activity so far as the activity takes place in Scotland. (3) Requirements under subsection (1) or (2) may not be imposed on persons in relation to an agricultural activity so far as the activity is carried on otherwise than for profit or 35 reward. (4) A requirement under subsection (1) must be made in writing. (5) Regulations under subsection (2) are subject to the affirmative procedure. 15 Provision of information etc. (1) This section applies to a requirement imposed under section 13(1) or (2) or 14(1) or (2). 40 (2) The requirement may specify— 10 Agriculture (Retained EU Law and Data) (Scotland) Bill Part 2—Collection and processing of data (a) how and when the required information is to be provided, including in particular— (i) the person to whom the information is to be provided (who may be a person other than the Scottish Ministers), 5 (ii) the form in which the information is to be provided, (iii) the means by which it is to be provided, (iv) the time or times at which or by when it is to be provided, (b) the types of processing to which the information may be subjected, (c) the form in which the information may be disclosed. 10 16 Purposes for which information may be required and processed (1) This section applies to a requirement imposed under section 13(1) or (2) or 14(1) or (2). (2) The requirement must specify the purposes for which the information is required and may be processed. (3) Each purpose specified must be in or covered by the list of purposes in subsection (4). 15 (4) The list of purposes is— (a) helping persons in agri-food supply chains or persons carrying on agricultural activities to— (i) increase productivity, (ii) manage risks (including, but not limited to, financial risks, non-financial 20 trading risks, climatic risks, risks to animal or human health and risks of or from disease or pollution), (iii) manage market volatility, (b) promoting transparency or fairness in agri-food supply chains or agricultural activities, 25 (c) promoting the health, welfare or traceability of animals of a kind kept for the production of food, drink, fibres or leathers, (d) promoting the health of plants, (e) minimising adverse environmental effects of activities connected with agri-food supply chains or agricultural activities, 30 (f) minimising waste arising from activities connected with agri-food supply chains or agricultural activities, (g) monitoring or analysing markets connected with agri-food supply chains or agricultural activities, (h) the purposes of any function of a public authority so far as it is a function relating 35 to one or more of the following— (i) agri-food supply chains, (ii) activities connected with agri-food supply chains, (iii) agricultural activities, (iv) the health or welfare of people or animals, Agriculture (Retained EU Law and Data) (Scotland) Bill 11 Part 2—Collection and processing of data (v...
Last updated: 7 May 2020

SPBill49BS052020

Persons who may not be members 3 (1) The Scottish Ministers may not appoint a person as a member of Consumer Scotland if— (a) the person is— 35 (i) a member of the Scottish Parliament, (ii) a member of the House of Commons, (iii) a member of the House of Lords, Consumer Scotland Bill 15 Schedule 1—Consumer Scotland (iv) a member of the National Assembly for Wales, (v) a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly, (vi) a member of the European Parliament, (vii) a councillor of a local authority, 5 (viii) the holder of any other relevant elective office within the meaning of paragraph 1(8) of schedule 7 of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000, (ix) a member of the Scottish Government, (x) a Minister of the Crown, 10 (xi) an office-holder of the Crown in right of Her Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom, (xii) an office-holder in the Scottish Administration, (xiii) a civil servant, (b) the person is insolvent, 15 (c) the person is or has been disqualified as a company director under the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986, (d) the person is or has been disqualified as a charity trustee under the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005, or (e) the person is or has been disqualified under any disqualification provision 20 analogous to either of those mentioned in paragraphs (c) and (d), anywhere in the world. (2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)(b), a person becomes insolvent when— (a) the person’s estate is sequestrated, (b) the person grants a trust deed for creditors or makes a composition or arrangement 25 with creditors, (c) the person is the subject of any other kind of arrangement analogous to either of those described in paragraphs (a) and (b), anywhere in the world.
Last updated: 24 January 2020

Female Genital Mutilation (Protection and Guidance) (Scotland) Bill with Stage 2 changes

Female Genital Mutilation (Protection and Guidance) (Scotland) Bill 3 (3) A female genital mutilation protection order may, among other things, require a person— (a) to take the protected person to a place of safety designated in the order, (b) to bring the protected person to a court at such time and place as the 5 court making the order may specify, (c) to bring the protected person to any other place at such time and for such purpose as the court making the order may specify, (d) to refrain from violent, threatening or intimidating conduct (whether against the protected person or any other person), 10 (e) who is a person such as is mentioned in subsection (2)(b) or (c), to appear in court, (f) to disclose, if known, the whereabouts of such a person or the protected person, (g) to refrain from taking a protected person from, or to, such place as the 15 court may specify, (h) to facilitate or otherwise enable the protected person or another person to return or go to such place as the court may specify within such period as may be so specified, (i) to submit to the court such documents (including passports, birth 20 certificates or other documents identifying the person and travel documents) as the court may specify, (j) to provide the court with such other information as it may specify. (4) For the purposes of subsection (2)(c), examples of involvement in other respects are— 25 (a) conspiring to commit an offence under section 1 or section 3, (b) aiding, abetting, counselling, procuring or inciting another person to commit an offence under section 3. 5C Power to make orders on application (1) The court may, on an application to it under this section, make a female genital 30 mutilation protection order. (2) The following persons may apply to the court for a female genital mutilation protection order— (a) a person on whom there is a risk of an act of genital mutilation being performed, 35 (b) a person on whom such an act has been performed, (c) the Lord Advocate, (d) a relevant local authority, (e) the chief constable, (f) with the leave of the court only, any other person. 4 Female Genital Mutilation (Protection and Guidance) (Scotland) Bill (3) The court may permit a person mentioned in subsection (2) to be a party to proceedings relating to an application made by another person mentioned in subsection (2). (4) In deciding whether to grant a person (“the applicant”) leave as referred to in 5 subsection (2)(f) or, as the case may be, to allow the applicant to be a party to proceedings relating to an application made by another person, the court must have regard to all the circumstances including (where applicable)— (a) the applicant’s connection with a person who would be a protected person were the order made, 10 (b) the applicant’s knowledge of such a person and the person’s circumstances, (c) the wishes and feelings of such a person so far as they are reasonably ascertainable, (d) in a case where leave to apply is being sought, any reason why the 15 application is being made by the applicant and not such a person. (5) The court need only have regard to a person’s wishes and feelings as mentioned in subsection (4)(c) so far as it considers it appropriate, on the basis of the person’s age and understanding, to do so. (6) In this Act, a “relevant local authority” is— 20 (a) in the case of an application for a female genital mutilation protection order, the local authority in whose area— (i) a person, who would be a protected person were such an order made, is present, or (ii) a person, who would be a person falling within a description 25 specified in such an order (as mentioned in section 5A(2)(a)(ii)) were the order made, is present or is likely to be present, (b) in any other case, the local authority in whose area— (i) a protected person is present, or (ii) a person falling within a description specified in such an order (as 30 mentioned in section 5A(2)(a)(ii)) is present or is likely to be present. 5CA Power to make orders for anonymity (1) The court must (unless the court considers there are exceptional circumstances not to do so), at the request of a person mention in subsection (2), make an 35 order requiring measures to be taken to ensure that— (a) the identity of the person is not disclosed, (b) other information that may be likely to lead members of the public to identify the person is not disclosed, in relation to an application for a female genital mutilation protection order. 40 (2) A person mentioned in subsection (1) is— (a) a person, mentioned in section 5C(2)(a), (b) or (f), applying for a female genital mutilation protection order, Female Genital Mutilation (Protection and Guidance) (Scotland) Bill 5 (b) any other person who would be subject to the order applied for were the order to be made. (3) The kinds of measures that may be required to be taken under subsection (1) in relation to a person are— 5 (a) the publication either during a specified time or the duration of a person’s lifetime of— (i) the person’s name, (ii) the person’s address, (iii) the name or the address of any parent or legal guardian of the 10 person, (iv) the identity of any school or other educational establishment attended by the person, (v...
Official Report Meeting date: 21 March 2019

Public Petitions Committee 21 March 2019

The petitioner has asked why the minister made “no reference to the absolute right of ... patients not to be subjected to inhuman or degrading treatment” and referred to the case of Robert Napier v the Scottish ministers. He said: “Will the Scottish Government study the definition of inhuman and degrading treatment provided by the European Court of Human Rights in paragraph 52 of its judgment in the Pretty v UK case and consider whether forced treatment might at times fall into the prohibited inhuman category”, as he believes it did in an example that perhaps provoked or prompted the petition.
Questions and Answers Date answered: 12 September 2013

S4W-16749

To ask the Scottish Government how many people have been stopped by police for (a) driving while using a mobile phone, (b) not wearing a seatbelt, (c) dangerous driving and (d) drink driving in (i) April, (ii) May, (iii) June, (iv) July and (v) August (A) 2012 and (B) 2013, broken down by region.
Official Report Meeting date: 17 February 2015

Meeting of the Parliament 17 February 2015

We must treat the matter carefully and seriously, and not turn it into a political football as the member’s party has done. I was at the St Mirren v Inverness Caledonian Thistle game on Saturday, and a clear majority of supporters—many of them families—from both clubs wanted the ban on alcohol lifted.

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