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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 - Advocacy
Section 4 of the Bill includes a requirement on Scottish Ministers to make arrangements by regulations for the provision of life-long independent advocacy support to those who have experience of care.iScottish Government. (2025, June 17).
Committee reports
Date published:
2 October 2025
Strengthening committees' effectiveness - Experience from Westminster and Wales
Retrieved from: https://research.senedd.wales/research-articles/the-assembly-moves-to-electing-its-committee-chairs/
Although both Westminster and the Senedd are clearly different kinds of legislatures to the Scottish Parliament, we consider that useful insights can be drawn from their experiences when considering the merits of elected conveners in Scotland...
Committee reports
Date published:
26 September 2025
Report on British Sign Language (Scotland) Act 2015 - Justice
The Committee therefore invites the Scottish Government to consider what further steps should be taken to:
Help educate Deaf people (particularly women) about their rights and how the justice system works;
Increase the numbers of suitably trained Deaf experts (and failing that, BSL interpreters for IDAAs) to provide support and advice to survivors;
Consider...
Committee reports
Date published:
26 September 2025
Report on British Sign Language (Scotland) Act 2015 - Early years provision
Whilst investment in Gaelic schools is rightly celebrated, the same parity of esteem has not been extended to BSL, despite the fact that Deaf children cannot simply ‘choose’ another language in order to get on in society. We therefore invite the Scottish Government to set out what additional steps it intends to take to increase the number of qualified teach...
Committee reports
Date published:
23 September 2025
Stage 1 report: Right to Addiction Recovery (Scotland) Bill - Impact on priorities
Given the pressures as they are at the moment, my worry is that what should be a relational-based interaction, with a lot of thought, empathy and working through, becomes more transactional as a result of the pressure of numbers.
Tracey McFall from the Scottish Recovery Consortium was concerned that the Bill would have the unintended consequence of divertin...
Committee reports
Date published:
16 May 2025
UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement: trade in services, youth mobility, and touring artists; and opportunities to improve the UK-EU trading relationship - Commentary and suggestions for improvements
Commentary and suggestions for improvements
A 2022 report by Westminster’s All-Party Parliamentary Group on Music made a range of recommendations to the UK Government including: improving arrangements for music workers touring both within the TCA and through bilateral agreements with individual EU countries; agreeing a “Cultural Touring Agreement” with the EU and potentially other European states to support the liberalisation of cultural touring; and developing institutions to support UK music exports including a Music Export Office and increasing funding for music exports.APPG-on-Music_Let-the-Music-Move_A-New-Deal-For-Touring
At the Scottish...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
25 March 2025
Scottish Parliament Statistics 2023-2024 - 4.3.1. Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee
Business transactedBusinessNoDetailsInquiries2A9 Dualling Project;Public Participation InquiryConsultations1Dualling the A9: Petition PE1992Proposed Members’ Bills considered0Draft Bills considered (Pre-legislative discussion)0Bills considered0Post-legislative scrutiny - Acts considered0Legislative Consent Memorandums0Public Body Act Consent Memorandums0SI consent notifications considered0SIs considered0SSIs considered0Petitions considered102Divisions held0Convener’s Exercise of a Casting Vote0Plenary debates226 October 2023: S6M-10765;2 May 2024: S6M-12995ReportsTitleSP Paper numberDate of publicationGovernment response3rd Report, 2023 (Session 6): Embedding Public Participation in the Work of the Parliament: Summary version42812 September 2023n/a2nd Report, 2023 (Session 6): Embedding Public Participation in the Work of the Parliament42712 September 2023n/a1st Report, 2023 (Session 6): Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee Annual Report 2022 - 20233945 June 2023n/aPetitions ConsideredNo. of petitionsNew petitions lodged from May 2023 until May 2024:PE2027, PE2028, PE2029, PE2030, PE2031, PE2032, PE2033, PE2034, PE2035, PE2036, PE2037, PE2038, PE2039, PE2040, PE2041, PE2042, PE2043, PE2044, PE2045, PE2046, PE2047, PE2048, PE2049, PE2050, PE2051, PE2052, PE2053, PE2054, PE2055, PE2056, PE2057, PE2058, PE2059, PE2060, PE2061, PE2062, PE2063, PE2064, PE2065, PE2066, PE2067, PE2068, PE2069, PE2070, PE2073, PE2074, PE2075, PE2076, PE2076, PE2077, PE2078, PE2079, PE2080, PE2082, PE2083, PE2084, PE2085, PE2086, PE2087, PE2088, PE2089, PE2090, PE2091, PE2092, PE2093, PE2094, PE209567Petitions considered by the Public Petitions Committee from May 2023 to May 2024 (petitions may have been considered by committees multiple times): PE1610, PE1657, PE1723, PE1812, PE1854, PE1856, PE1859, PE1862, PE1864, PE1865, PE1871, PE1876, PE1877, PE1885, PE1887, PE1896, PE1900, PE1902, PE1905, PE1906, PE1911, PE1912, PE1913, PE1916, PE1918, PE1919, PE1926, PE1928, PE1930, PE1931, PE1933, PE1934, PE1936, PE1937, PE1939, PE1941, PE1945, PE1946, PE1947, PE1948, PE1951, PE1952, PE1953, PE1956, PE1957, PE1958, PE1960, PE1961, PE1962, PE1964, PE1966, PE1967, PE1968, PE1969, PE1970, PE1971, PE1973, PE1974, PE1975, PE1976, PE1977, PE1978, PE1979, PE1980, PE1981, PE1982, PE1983, PE1984, PE1985, PE1986, PE1988, PE1989, PE1990, PE1991, PE1992, PE1993, PE1994, PE1995, PE1997, PP1999, PE2000, PE2001, PE2002, PE2004, PE2006, PE2008, PE2009, PE2012, PE2013, PE2014, PE2015, PE2016, PE2017, PE2018, PE2019, PE2020, PE2021, PE2022, PE2023, PE2024, PE2025, PE2026102Petitions referred to Scottish...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
6 March 2025
The Leases (Automatic Continuation etc.) (Scotland) Bill - Notices terminating a lease
For example, the SLC were told that solicitors tend to comply with the terms of the 1907 Act as if they are compulsory in all situations, always giving notice in accordance with the 1907 Act.
Scottish Parliament. (2024, December 11).
SPICe briefings
Date published:
19 December 2024
Scottish Parliament Statistics 2022-2023 - 4.3.16. Social Justice and Social Security Committee
Events
Informal round table discussion with kinship carers
WitnessesThe following witnesses were called to give oral evidenceCategoryNumberScottish Government Ministers16Scottish Government officials32Members of the Scottish Parliament0Representatives of public bodies and local authorities31UK Ministers0UK Government officials0Members of the UK Parliament0R...
Committee reports
Date published:
10 December 2024
Stage 1 Report on the Disability Commissioner (Scotland) Bill - The need for a Disability Commissioner
In oral evidence to the Committee, the Minister for Equalities acknowledged the strength of feeling and said that she was sympathetic to the proposal in the Bill. She did, however, maintain the Scottish Government's neutral position on the Bill, asking whether it was the “right vehicle” to achieve its policy intent.
