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At the Committee meeting on 18 May 2023 [Link], when the Committee considered your report on How the Scottish Government is set up to deliver climate change goals you confirmed that you would be undertaking work on heating homes.
Cabinet Secretary for Climate Action and Energy Gillian Martin MSP T: 0300 244 4000 E: [email protected] Edward Mountain MSP Convener of the Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee Scottish Parliament Edinburgh EH99 1SP Email: [email protected] 9 December 2025 ___ Dear Edward, THE BIOCIDAL PRODUCTS (DATA PROTECTION PERIODS) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS 2025 EU EXIT LEGISLATION – PROTOCOL WITH SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT The Scottish Parliament agreed on 18 November 2025 that it was content for Scottish Ministers to give their consent to the above named UKSI including Scottish devolved matters, as set out in the notification to the Parliament.
Following the Parliament’s approval of the Scottish Government’s improvement plan relating to the implementation of local authorities’ climate change duties in late 2024, ESS is monitoring the Scottish Government’s implementation of the plan.
The Committee will continue to engage with the Scottish Government to seek an outcomes-based approach to budgeting, transparency in presenting the costs and benefits of expenditure, including the climate impacts.
Is there anything else that you would like us to raise with them or the Scottish Government? Until last year, I was frustrated with Highland Council, because it did not have anything at all adhering to the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015.
This is a crisis for the credibility of the Scottish Parliament. We, as members of the Scottish Parliament, and the public whom we represent, must hear from the Lord Advocate the reasons for that decision.
One of the pillars is about the social and productive use of land. We run the Scottish land fund for the whole country, not just for Highlands and Islands.
The Scotland Act 1998 (Transfer of Functions to the Scottish Ministers etc.) Order 2019 [draft]
The Scotland Act 1998 (Transfer of Functions to the Scottish Ministers etc.)