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20 February 2025
Disciplinary procedures
If you are on secondment to the Scottish Parliament, you are required to comply with the principles set out in the Code of Conduct.
Committee reports
Date published:
21 January 2021
Domestic Abuse (Protection) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1 Report - Conclusions and recommendations
Legislating on such a serious and complex issue as domestic abuse is difficult and requires time for detailed consultation to take place, and we note that time for detailed scrutiny on this Bill has been curtailed in part because of the pandemic and because of the volume of other Scottish Government legislation that we have been required to consider at the ...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
25 September 2025
Definitions of terminal illness in assisted dying legislation
This is similar, but not identical to, provisions in Scottish social security legislation whereby the Chief Medical Officer must prepare and publish guidance relating to the definition.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
15 March 2026
Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3 Proceedings - The Process
Requiring a doctor who determined that a person was not eligible to issue a formal statement explaining their reasoning, share it with the person, and prevent any new assessments for 12 months (amendment 184).
Requiring Scottish Ministers to establish an independent expert panel to advise doctors, with mandatory referral where there was uncertainty about ca...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
12 March 2025
Approaches to recall of elected representatives - Consideration of recall during the Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill
Retrieved from https://research.senedd.wales/research-articles/senedd-cymru-members-and-elections-bill-the-next-steps-for-senedd-reform/ [accessed 27 June 2024] The current Senedd returned its members (Members of the Senedd, MS) under the same Additional Member System used to elect MSPs to the Scottish Parliament. At present, there are 40 single-member cons...
Committee reports
Date published:
21 December 2023
Stage 1 Report on Visitor Levy (Scotland) Bill - The “Chargeable Transaction”
Whilst not insurmountable, any levy introduced under the Bill will present challenges to business and the Committee invites the Scottish Government to respond to the concerns set out above in respect of any potential “gaming” of the system, challenges in separating out the “chargeable transaction” from packages, the interaction with online booking platforms...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
5 October 2023
Report from a partial evaluation of the Lobbying (Scotland) Act 2016 - Process for submitting returns
The current process places the administrative burden solely on the organisations or individuals participating in direct contact with MSPs or other Scottish Government officials. For larger organisations, particularly for those who deliver multiple services or activities across a range of settings, both locally and nationally, it is a more onerous task to ga...
Committee reports
Date published:
26 April 2023
Long COVID - Stigma
The Committee was concerned to hear of the apparent lack of any lessons being learned from other chronic illnesses such as Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/ Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) in raising awareness of Long COVID and avoiding stigma around the condition, and would ask the Scottish Government whether it has any plans to look at this given the evidence ...
Committee reports
Date published:
23 March 2023
New vessels for the Clyde and Hebrides: Arrangements to deliver vessels 801 and 802 - Annexe D: Written evidence and engagement
Experiences and reflections of working at the shipyard when the Scottish Government appointed Turnaround Director was responsible
A “culture of managers” was said to have continued when the turnaround director, Tim Hair was responsible for the yard, with lots of additional management staff being brought in by Mr Hair.
Committee reports
Date published:
6 October 2022
Stage 1 Report on the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill - Religious sensitivities
They take the view that how acquiring a GRC affects a person’s definition and rights under the Equality Act 2010 and believe that this is a central issue in determining what impact the Bill might have on women and girls and seeks clarification on that from the Scottish Government.
