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Committee reports
Date published:
6 March 2026
Cross-Committee work on Tackling Drug Deaths and Drug Harm Session 6 Legacy Report - Criminal Justice Committee's inquiry into tackling the harm caused by substance misuse in Scottish prisons
Its focus included the extent and pattern of substance use across prisons, the role of trauma and inequality, the impact on safety and wellbeing of both those in custody and staff, and whether current governance and data arrangements enable effective scrutiny and accountability.
Over the course of the inquiry, the Committee took oral evidence across six for...
Committee reports
Date published:
6 March 2026
Cross-Committee on Tackling Drug Deaths and Drug Harm Session 6 Legacy Report - Criminal Justice Committee's inquiry into tackling the harm caused by substance misuse in Scottish prisons
Its focus included the extent and pattern of substance use across prisons, the role of trauma and inequality, the impact on safety and wellbeing of both those in custody and staff, and whether current governance and data arrangements enable effective scrutiny and accountability.
Over the course of the inquiry, the Committee took oral evidence across six for...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
6 March 2026
Assessing the council tax against the principles of "good" tax policymaking - Horizontal equity
These effects are well documented, such as by the Fraser of Allander Institute and the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) whose analysis shows that even after accounting for the CTR scheme, cash savings rise across the income distribution, with the wealthiest 10% of household saving more than twice as much as the lowest.
Committee reports
Date published:
24 February 2026
Cairngorm funicular railway - Governance and oversight
The risks associated with the funicular are specified in HIE’s 2024/25 annual report2Highlands and Islands Enterprise. (2025, November 27). Annual Report and Accounts 2024/25. Retrieved from www.hie.co.uk/media/cghfzho3/annual-report-2024-25-signed-version-for-internet.pdf.
Committee reports
Date published:
24 February 2026
Cairngorm funicular railway - Balancing environmental sustainability with economic development
As this is a national asset, it will be crucial to take the local community wider conservation and nature organisations’ views into account. The Committee recommends that Cairngorm Mountain (Scotland) Ltd continues to engage with the local community and expert groups and does so in a transparent way, particularly when it is reviewing its masterplan.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
24 February 2026
The impact of tightening finances on Scotland's universities - Restructure the funding model and streams
Balance international recruitment with domestic provision: Universities may wish to take into account protecting and expanding international recruitment since the fees from overseas students remain essential given current domestic funding constraints5Cannings, J. (2023).
Committee reports
Date published:
12 February 2026
Report on the draft Climate Change Plan as it relates to agriculture and land use - Annual tree planting targets
They emphasised that a more spatial approach to tree planting, which takes into account the characteristics of specific sites, could deliver a number of co-benefits alongside climate mitigation, such as biodiversity, flood management and soil conservation.
Committee reports
Date published:
11 February 2026
Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee report on Stage 1 of the Visitor Levy (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill - Multiple schemes in one local authority - same chargeable transaction
"iiiLocal Government, Housing and Planning Committee, Official Report, 3 February 2025, Col 16
Several questions arise from this:
Have the costs of obtaining legal advice on the interaction between a single chargeable transaction and multiple concurrent schemes been accounted for in the Financial Memorandum?
Committee reports
Date published:
5 February 2026
Report on the Scottish Budget 2026-27 - Officeholders
Retrieved from https://digitalpublications.parliament.scot/Committees/Report/SSBLRC/2025/6/19/ebc80c58-7bea-4a4a-9c6d-b5811cd016ac, the Scottish Parliament resolved that—
“the SPCB supported body landscape should not be expanded to include new advocacy-type SPCB supported bodies;
any future proposals for new SPCB supported bodies must satisfy two-tier criteria, as set out in paragraph 150 of the report, comprising both justification and effectiveness tests, and that a parliamentary committee should be given the remit of assessing proposals against these criteria;
a parliamentary committee should be given the specific responsibility for the accountability...
Committee reports
Date published:
23 January 2026
Stage 1 Report on the Prostitution (Offences and Support) (Scotland) Bill - Full decriminalisation
Sex workers’ workplaces are regulated through employment law, enabling workers to hold their bosses to account and form trade unions.
Dr Larissa Sandy, Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Nottingham told us that—
…in Australia and New South Wales, decriminalisation actually changed the approach to policing.
