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Published:
28 April 2023
Parliament Committee back Bill which would establish a Patient Safety Commissioner for Scotland
To this end, it has endorsed proposals that the Commissioner be appointed by the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body and accountable to the Scottish Parliament.
In its Stage 1 report, the Committee supports proposals that the primary functions of this role should be to act as an advocate for systemic improvements and to amplify the voice of patients.
Committee reports
Date published:
23 March 2023
New vessels for the Clyde and Hebrides: Arrangements to deliver vessels 801 and 802 - The decision-making process to nationalise FMEL
Any option that we considered for the future of the yard would have had to have satisfied the accountable officer tests.2Official Report. (2022, June 9).
Committee reports
Date published:
23 January 2023
Subordinate Legislation: The Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (additional amount: transactions relating to second homes etc.) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2022 - The Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (additional amount: transactions relating to second homes etc.) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2022
The Order is subject to the provisional affirmative procedure, which requires Parliament to approve it within a 28-day periodiUnder Standing Order Rule 10.11.1 ‘no account shall be taken of any time during which the Parliament is dissolved or is in recess for more than 4 days’. in order for it to remain in effect.
Committee reports
Date published:
21 December 2022
Legislative Consent Memorandum: delegated powers relevant to Scotland in the Public Order Bill - Delegated Powers
The Committee therefore considered that the exercise of the power by the BTP subject to obtaining consent from the Scottish Ministers is a proportionate approach, taking account of particular matters being policed and their time sensitive nature.
Committee reports
Date published:
19 December 2022
Subordinate legislation considered by the Rural Affairs, Islands and Natural Environment Committee on 14 December 2022
The policy note explains that, due to concerns that a significant number of birds may need to be culled because of the threat from avian flu, some retailers and the larger turkey processors (together accounting for around 90% of production), contacted Defra to request temporary approval for poultrymeat to be frozen and then sold as a defrosted product.
Committee reports
Date published:
1 December 2022
Report on the Financial Memorandum for the National Care Service (Scotland) Bill - Overview
The Bill seeks to implement some of the key recommendations from the Independent Review of Adult Social Care (the ‘Feeley Review’), which reported in February 2021, that is: to create a National Care Service “to drive national improvements; to ensure strategic integration with the NHS; to set national standards, terms and conditions; and to bring national oversight and accountability”. The Bill also enables Scottish Ministers to create new ‘care boards’, gives them powers to achieve more consistency and better integration in relation to records about people’s health and social care, introduces a right to breaks from unpaid caring, and gives people living in care homes a right to maintain contact with family and friends (so-called Anne’s LawiiAnne's Law is named after Anne Duke, whose family campaigned for better visiting rights during the pandemic.).
Committee reports
Date published:
27 September 2022
Stage 1 report on the Hunting with Dogs (Scotland) Bill - Costs
The organisations suggested the costs for NatureScot to administer a licensing scheme would be higher than those detailed in the FM on account of the possible need for training of new staff to keep pace with the demand for licences and the potential need for site visits by NatureScot staff to remote areas to assess the permissibility of applications for lic...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
21 September 2022
SPICe Bill Summaries - Session 5 - Forestry and Land Management (Scotland) Bill
Purpose and objectives of the Bill
According to the Policy Memorandum the following policy objectives are achieved through the Bill:
Improved accountability, transparency and policy alignment with respect to governance of forestry in Scotland.
Committee reports
Date published:
6 July 2022
Report on inquiry into Future Parliamentary procedures and practices - Proxy voting
It observed:
This Parliament should encourage people of all ages and life stages to be an MSP and should account for life events, such as having a child.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
23 May 2022
The Hunting with Dogs (Scotland) Bill - Offences and exceptions
In relation to the use of two dogs, Lord Bonomy stated that:
I am persuaded by the submissions and such other evidence as there is, in particular that of the experience of those who work with packs, the scientific study paper by Naylor and Knott (taking full account of its limitations and the criticisms made of it), and the fact that in England and Wales hu...
