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6 May 2025
R2RBill_DouglasRossMSPToConvener_29Apr25
This review highlighted an evidence review by the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice (HKCIJ 2017), which compared international residential rehabilitation models and which found that “residential treatment broadly increases abstinence success, reduces criminal activity and improves wellbeing”. The Scottish Government’s literature review then co...
Last updated:
24 April 2025
BudgetProcessInquiry_SummaryOfWrittenEvidence
. […] it is not clear what impact the work of the Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee had on the budget that year.” 8.3.3 The LGHPC suggests “that post-legislative scrutiny of the outcomes the budget may be more effective in holding the Scottish Government to account”. 8.4 Lack of good quality data to inform scrutiny 8.4.1 The Economy and Fair Work Committee (EFWC) stated that “Over the course of this session, this committee has commented on […] (2) difficulties when comparing spend year-on-year, and (3) a lack of disaggregated data, for example in relation to business support provided during the pandemic by sector and generally in relation to women’s business activity...
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11 June 2024
Promoter's Memorandum Pow of Inchaffray Drainage Commission (Scotland) Bill
As a result, the Commissioners’ activities are not carried out by the Commission as a separate entity but are in fact acts of the individual Commissioners.
Last updated:
10 June 2024
Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Bill as Passed
Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Bill [AS PASSED] An Act of the Scottish Parliament to create an offence with respect to the engaging by a person in a course of behaviour which is abusive of the person’s partner or ex-partner; and to make rules of criminal procedure for that offence and also for offences subject to the statutory aggravation involving abuse of partners or ex-partners. 5 P ART 1 O FFENCE AS TO DOMESTIC ABUSE Engaging in course of abusive behaviour 1 Abusive behaviour towards partner or ex-partner (1) A person commits an offence if— 10 (a) the person (“A”) engages in a course of behaviour which is abusive of A’s partner or ex-partner (“B”), and (b) both of the further conditions are met. (2) The further conditions are— (a) that a reasonable person would consider the course of behaviour to be likely to 15 cause B to suffer physical or psychological harm, (b) that either— (i) A intends by the course of behaviour to cause B to suffer physical or psychological harm, or (ii) A is reckless as to whether the course of behaviour causes B to suffer 20 physical or psychological harm. (3) In the further conditions, the references to psychological harm include fear, alarm and distress. 2 What constitutes abusive behaviour (1) Subsections (2) to (4) elaborate on section 1(1) as to A’s behaviour. 25 (2) Behaviour which is abusive of B includes (in particular)— (a) behaviour directed at B that is violent, threatening or intimidating, (b) behaviour directed at B, at a child of B or at another person that either— SP Bill 8B Session 5 (2018) 2 Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Bill Part 1—Offence as to domestic abuse (i) has as its purpose (or among its purposes) one or more of the relevant effects set out in subsection (3), or (ii) would be considered by a reasonable person to be likely to have one or more of the relevant effects set out in subsection (3). 5 (3) The relevant effects are of— (a) making B dependent on, or subordinate to, A, (b) isolating B from friends, relatives or other sources of support, (c) controlling, regulating or monitoring B’s day-to-day activities...
Last updated:
10 June 2024
Bill as Amended at Stage 2 Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Bill
Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Bill [AS AMENDED AT STAGE 2] An Act of the Scottish Parliament to create an offence with respect to the engaging by a person in a course of behaviour which is abusive of the person’s partner or ex-partner; and to make rules of criminal procedure for that offence and also for offences subject to the statutory aggravation involving abuse of partners or ex-partners. 5 P ART 1 O FFENCE AS TO DOMESTIC ABUSE Engaging in course of abusive behaviour 1 Abusive behaviour towards partner or ex-partner (1) A person commits an offence if— 10 (a) the person (“A”) engages in a course of behaviour which is abusive of A’s partner or ex-partner (“B”), and (b) both of the further conditions are met. (2) The further conditions are— (a) that a reasonable person would consider the course of behaviour to be likely to 15 cause B to suffer physical or psychological harm, (b) that either— (i) A intends by the course of behaviour to cause B to suffer physical or psychological harm, or (ii) A is reckless as to whether the course of behaviour causes B to suffer 20 physical or psychological harm. (3) In the further conditions, the references to psychological harm include fear, alarm and distress. 2 What constitutes abusive behaviour (1) Subsections (2) to (4) elaborate on section 1(1) as to A’s behaviour. 25 (2) Behaviour which is abusive of B includes (in particular)— (a) behaviour directed at B that is violent, threatening or intimidating, (b) behaviour directed at B, at a child of B or at another person that either— SP Bill 8A Session 5 (2017) 2 Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Bill Part 1—Offence as to domestic abuse (i) has as its purpose (or among its purposes) one or more of the relevant effects set out in subsection (3), or (ii) would be considered by a reasonable person to be likely to have one or more of the relevant effects set out in subsection (3). 5 (3) The relevant effects are of— (a) making B dependent on, or subordinate to, A, (b) isolating B from friends, relatives or other sources of support, (c) controlling, regulating or monitoring B’s day-to-day activities...
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21 December 2022
PreBudgetScrutiny_DFMToConvener_20Dec22
Furthermore, an EQIA was published to cover Programme 5 of the Scottish Government’s National Strategy for Economic Transformation, which encompasses our parental employability support commitments. 8 As we begin to look to delivery of support in 2023-24, we will update the No One Left Behind EQIA to reflect planned additional activity around child poverty, ...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
4 December 2024
S6W-31618
The proposed reforms are about making the consideration and determination process more efficient, not making it easier for projects to get consent or to reduce the overall quality of decision-making in the consenting process.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
17 May 2023
S6W-17125
As part of any evaluation we will consider how we get direct feedback from people about their experiences of using it and impact.
Official Report
Meeting date:
8 January 2013
Welfare Reform Committee 08 January 2013
It would be wrong to assume—I am not saying that you assume—that passported benefits go only to people who are out of work and make it more likely that people get stuck in a benefits trap and cannot get into work.
Official Report
Meeting date:
8 January 2013
Meeting of the Parliament 08 January 2013
It should not, however, have taken a Government minister’s intervention to get him to that point.It is crucial that people are able to navigate the system and get from one programme into another and then into a job.
