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Committee reports
Date published:
25 March 2026
Legacy Report of the Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee, Session 6 - Boundaries Scotland
We urge a successor committee considering any such legislation in the next session to take our submission to the Review into account and protect the role of the Parliament in determining local authority electoral boundaries and arrangements.
Committee reports
Date published:
27 February 2026
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee Report on the Draft Climate Change Plan - Aviation
Aviation
Scottish international aviation emissions (which make up most aviation emissions) increased by 173% between 1990 and 2023, accounting for 11.5% of Scottish transport emissions.
Committee reports
Date published:
19 December 2025
Stage 1 report on the Wellbeing and Sustainable Development (Scotland) Bill - The Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015
This is due to the commissioner not having the power to hold the Government or public bodies to account. They suggested it would be beneficial to enhance that aspect of the Bill.2Scottish Parliament. (2025, December 19).
Committee reports
Date published:
19 December 2025
Stage 1 report on the Wellbeing and Sustainable Development (Scotland) Bill - Overlap of duties and responsibilities
It should also avoid “duplicating or adding to the work that is already being done by public bodies and others”, and “act as a support to enhance awareness, accountability and scrutiny”.2Scottish Parliament. (2025, December 19).
Committee reports
Date published:
4 July 2025
The 2023/24 audit of Ferguson Marine (Port Glasgow) Holdings Limited - Contractor payments and reporting to the board
The Committee notes the differing accounts provided in evidence by the former Chief Executive and current senior team regarding the contractor arrangement.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
29 April 2025
Natural Environment (Scotland) Bill - Background to EIA legislation and Habitats Regulations
EIA is a process for systematically assessing the potential or likely significant environmental effects arising from a proposed project or development, and ensuring those effects are taken into account by decision-makers (the 'competent authority').
Committee reports
Date published:
4 November 2024
Report on the Scotland Act 1998 (Specification of Devolved Tax) (Building Safety) Order 2024 [draft] - Finance and Public Administration Committee consideration
On 30 October 2024 the Cabinet Secretary wrote to the Committee responding to some of the concerns raised during the meeting.
A full account of the evidence taken at the meeting can be read in the Official Report.
Committee reports
Date published:
4 October 2024
Stage 1 report on the Climate Change (Emissions Reduction Targets) (Scotland) Bill - Carbon budgeting versus annual and interim targets
This reform is supported by the CCC for a number of reasons.ivNet Zero, Energy and Transport Committee, Official Report, 10 September 2024, Col 3 They said annual targets are "vulnerable to year-to-year fluctuations in emissions" which a carbon budget approach would smooth out.vLetter from the Interim Chair of the Climate Change Committee to the Cabinet Secretary for Net Zero and Energy on perspectives on how to design and implement carbon budgets in Scotland - 14 May 2024 and written submissions from Environmental Standards Scotland, Natural Power Consultants, Scottish Water, Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund, Consumer Scotland, Edinburgh Climate Change Institute, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at LSE, Stop Climate Chaos, Friends of the Earth Scotland, Glasgow City Council, Shetland Islands Council, Quakers in Scotland, NatureScot, Built Environment Forum Scotland, and Strathclyde Partnership for Transport This was echoed in the comments of others.ivNet Zero, Energy and Transport Committee, Official Report, 17 September 2024, Col 5 and 6, and written submissions from Scottish Water, Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund, Environmental Standards Scotland, Scottish Fiscal Commission, Natural Power Consultants, Consumer Scotland and Edinburgh Climate Change Institute
It was also thought moving to carbon budgets could:
allow for easier cooperation between the Scottish and UK Government as they would both be working to the same system and potentially the same timescales;viiWritten submissions from Quakers in Scotland, Natural Power Consultants, Strathclyde Partnership for Transport and Aberdeenshire Council
Provide an opportunity to recalibrate and rejuvenate the focus on meeting the 2045 target;viiiWritten submissions from Consumer Scotland and Quakers in Scotland and
Be able to "transcend" other events such as "budget cycles, fiscal planning".ivNet Zero, Energy and Transport Committee, Official Report, 17 September 2024, Col 5
While there was support for the move to carbon budgets, it was suggested it must be the last change to the system of setting emission reduction ambitions in Scotland.ivNet Zero, Energy and Transport Committee, Official Report, 24 September 2024, Col 10 and written submissions from Aberdeenshire Council and Environmental Standards Scotland
Concerns raised about moving to carbon budgets included:
Transparency and accountability...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
26 July 2024
Economic inactivity and ill health in Scotland - NHS wait times
When health board fixed effects and individual characteristics like age, sex, level of education, and number of children in the household are accounted for, these correlations become smaller and in some cases statistically insignificant.
News
Published:
2 July 2024
Holyrood Committee back Bill which aims to reform police complaints system but have concerns that changes don’t go far enough
“There are measures in the Bill which we support and believe will improve the robustness, accountability and transparency of the police complaints system.
