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Committee reports
Date published:
17 December 2025
Stage 1 Report on the Children (Care, Care Experience and Services Planning) (Scotland) Bill - Introduction
Whilst not every individual or organisation can be quoted in this Stage 1 report, every written submission and all the evidence we heard in person was taken into account in drafting the Committee's conclusions and recommendations.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
28 October 2025
Scotland's water industry: overview of regulation and key challenges - 4.3 Scottish Water: structure, role and accountability
4.3 Scottish Water: structure, role and accountability
Scottish Water was established by the Water Industry (Scotland) Act 2002.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
28 October 2025
Scotland's water industry: overview of regulation and key challenges - 5.2.2 Regulation of private sewage systems
SEPA reports that approximately 75,000 private sewage systems are authorised in Scotland as of April 2023, including those vested in Scottish Water. This accounts for approximately 44% of the number of Private Sewage Systems estimated by CREW.2Centre of Expertise for Waters (CREW). (2022, October 5).
Committee reports
Date published:
2 October 2025
Strengthening committees' effectiveness - What was envisaged for Scottish Parliament Committees
It was envisaged that committees were to be at the heart of legislative scrutiny and of holding Government to account. It called for “all purpose committees” combining the roles of House of Commons departmental select committees and “standing” committees on Bills.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
25 September 2025
Digital assets in Scots law - Definitions in Scotland and the UK
In England and Wales, the Law Commission of England and Wales, in its final report on digital assets, defined a digital asset in a broad sense as “any asset that is represented digitally or electronically”, and considered that “it captures a huge variety of things including digital files, digital records, email accounts, domain names, in-game digital assets...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
3 September 2025
Criminal Justice Modernisation and Abusive Domestic Behaviour Reviews (Scotland) Bill: Consideration prior to Stage 3 - Fixed penalties
In addition, it commented that the pre-pandemic scale had not been changed since it was introduced in 2008, and its maximum of £300 would now be the equivalent of almost £430 if inflation is taken into account.
Section 6 of the Bill also replaces an existing power (introduced in 2006) allowing the Scottish Government to use secondary legislation to set a hi...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
17 June 2025
Education (Scotland) Bill, Briefing Prior to Stage 3 - Stage 1 Debate
Miles Briggs MSP said that the new organisations should be more accountable to Parliament. Pam Duncan-Glancy MSP criticized the Bill for not addressing the deeper issues in the education system and called for better representation of teachers and trade unions in the governance structures of Qualifications Scotland.
Committee reports
Date published:
22 May 2025
A blueprint for participation - embedding deliberative democracy in the work of the Scottish Parliament - Trust
The evaluation report covering the People’s Panels on the Climate Change (Scotland) Act and reducing drug harm and deaths found that 90% of participants in the climate change panel and 78% of participants in the drug harm and deaths in Scotland panel answered either “Very” or “Extremely” to the statement: “I feel like participating in the People’s Panel has improved the way I feel about the Scottish Parliament and the work it does to hold the Scottish Government to account...
Committee reports
Date published:
16 May 2025
The 2022/23 and 2023/24 audits of the Water Industry Commission for Scotland - Assurance and the RAG rating system
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During evidence, the Director-General Net Zero, commented that—
Previous accounts had not indicated any issues with the board—that is not a defence, but a matter of fact.1The Scottish Parliament. (2024, March 21).
SPICe briefings
Date published:
14 May 2025
The right to know: freedom of information in Scotland - Time for compliance with an information request
Retrieved from https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2002/13/contents [accessed 1 October 2024] For example, the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (Time for Compliance) Regulations 2016 extends the response time for grant-aided schools and independent special schools to account for the impact of school holiday periods.5legislation.gov.uk. (2016).
