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(Scotland) Bill
The Bill was introduced on 11 December 2024 and sought to modernise and clarify the law around how certain leases can continue automatically past their termination date, and other procedural elements related to ending leases.
Having agreed to take a cumulative approach to budget scrutiny over Session 6, this inquiry followed on from the Committee’s previous pre- budget scrutiny for 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25 and 2025-26. The Committee published its report on 21 November 2025.
This leaves little time to report to relevant committees in advance of meetings being held.”6 Professor Nicola McEwen and Dr Coree Brown Swan. (2024). The Scottish Government-Scottish Parliament Written Agreement on Intergovernmental Relations: Still Fit for Purpose?.
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called for the Scottish Government to explore how Bill provisions on aftercare and a register of foster carers could be brought within scope of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Incorporation) (Scotland) Act 2024...
The Committee noted that, in November 2024, the Scottish Government produced guidance on the use of restraint and seclusion in schools, Included, engaged and involved part 3: A relationships and rights-based approach to physical intervention in schools.
The Policy Memorandum also referred to a 2024 report by Nordic Model Now! which found a 50% reduction in people engaging in street prostitution in Northern Ireland after the ban on the purchase of sex and no identified increase in trafficking.