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Committee reports
Date published:
27 January 2026
Stage 1 report: Non-surgical Procedures and Functions of Medical Reviewers (Scotland) Bill - Enforcement powers and implementation
Overall, the Committee has heard that there is widespread support for the need for enforcement powers but there were differences of opinion on the best approach to this. Some prioritised strict enforcement for safety, while others warned that overly rigid rules risk harming livelihoods and reducing access without improving outcomes.
Committee reports
Date published:
17 December 2025
Stage 1 Report on the Children (Care, Care Experience and Services Planning) (Scotland) Bill - Questions still to be answered
The Committee remains unconvinced that a register will provide similar benefits for matching and asks the Scottish Government to set out how the register could improve matching, whilst keeping children and young people as close to their own families and communities as possible (where it is in their best interests to do so).
The Committee draws the Scottish ...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
17 December 2025
Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill: A summary of stage 2 proceedings - Process
The Assisted Dying Training Authority would have been responsible for setting and updating training standards for medical practitioners involved in assisted dying, accrediting providers and practitioners annually, and ensuring ongoing education reflects best practice, ethics, and societal attitudes.
Committee reports
Date published:
30 October 2025
Report on pre-budget scrutiny 2026-27: responding to long-term fiscal pressures - Social security spending
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In response to questions about whether social security assistance is the best way to move people out of poverty, the Cabinet Secretary for FLG acknowledged that it is “one aspect of assisting people with poverty; the others are about ensuring well-paid employment and allowing people to take part in education and training”.7Scottish Parliamen...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
28 October 2025
Scotland's water industry: overview of regulation and key challenges - 6.1.1 Rainwater drainage and blue-green infrastructure
Consider how to bring blue-green infrastructure into existing communities by making the best of existing greenspace.
Take opportunities to bring in new blue-green infrastructure and reduce hard surfaces (e.g. rain gardens at the street scale, replacing paved areas with permeable surfaces).8Scottish Government . (2023, November 21).
Committee reports
Date published:
23 September 2025
Stage 1 report: Right to Addiction Recovery (Scotland) Bill - Requiring a diagnosis of addiction
Dr Rice from the Royal College of Psychiatrists in Scotland agreed with this view, concluding:
My own view is that “substance use disorder” is the best term. Without getting too much into the niceties, DSM-5 is probably going to drop the term “dependence” altogether and talk about substance use disorders that are of mild, moderate or high severity.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
11 September 2025
Getting the inactive active: Barriers to physical activity and potential policy solutions - Conclusions
Further to the role of education is how best to utilise the school estate for community access.
Committee reports
Date published:
9 September 2025
Stage 1 report on the Tertiary Education and Training (Funding and Governance) (Scotland) Bill - Managing agents
While praising the work of industry bodies who operate as managing agents on behalf of SMEs, Jon Vincent, representing Colleges Scotland, queried whether SDS had scrutinised the financial model for managing agents to establish whether it provided best value for public investment.1Scottish Parliament. (2025, May 14).
Committee reports
Date published:
9 September 2025
Stage 1 report on the Tertiary Education and Training (Funding and Governance) (Scotland) Bill - Scottish apprenticeship certificates
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SQA concluded that it was:
not clear that the transfer of responsibility for certification of MA completions to the SFC is in the best interests of either providers or apprentices, given there is an established independent platform.5Scottish Qualifications...
Committee reports
Date published:
29 May 2025
Annual Report of the Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee 2024-2025
The inquiry is exploring three key strands:
The current structure of committees, the best size of membership and the number of committees
Whether elected conveners would strengthen the committees of the Parliament and if so how
How committees currently evaluate their work and whether there are changes or improvements which could be made.
