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Last updated: 15 December 2025

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The 2024/25 audit of the Scottish Government Consolidated Accounts: The Committee will consider the evidence heard at agenda items 2 and 3 and agree any further action it wishes to take.

Committee reports Date published: 4 March 2020

Census (Scotland) Order 2020 (SSI 2020/draft)

The Scottish Government will take the views of the Committee into consideration when it comes to lay the formal draft Census Order before the Parliament.

Last updated: 10 June 2024

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SP Bill 11B Session 5 (2018) 2 Forestry and Land Management (Scotland) Bill Part 2—Forestry functions Chapter 1—General forestry functions Forestry strategy 3 Duty to prepare forestry strategy (1) The Scottish Ministers must prepare a forestry strategy. (2) The forestry strategy— 5 (za) must set out a vision for forestry in Scotland, (a) must set out the Scottish Ministers’ objectives, priorities and policies with respect to the promotion of sustainable forest management, and (b) may set out other matters with respect to the promotion of sustainable forest management. 10 (3) The forestry strategy must include the Scottish Ministers’ objectives, priorities and policies with respect to— (za) the creation of woodland, (a) the economic development of forestry, (aa) targets for the planting of trees, 15 (b) the conservation and enhancement of the environment by means of sustainable forest management, (c) the realisation of the social benefits of forestry, (d) the acquisition and disposal of land under sections 15 to 17, (e) the production and supply of timber and other forest products. 20 (4) The Scottish Ministers— (a) must keep the forestry strategy under review, and (b) may, if they consider it appropriate to do so, revise the strategy. (5) If the Scottish Ministers have not revised the forestry strategy under subsection (4)(b) within the period of 9 years beginning with the day on which the strategy was last 25 published, they must revise the strategy. 4 Preparation and revision of forestry strategy (1) In preparing or revising the forestry strategy, the Scottish Ministers must— (a) publish a draft of the strategy and consult with such bodies as they consider appropriate and also with the general public, 30 (b) have regard to— (i) the land use strategy (prepared under section 57 of the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009), and (ii) the land rights and responsibilities statement (prepared under section 1 of the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2016), 35 (iii) Article 2 of the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, (iv) the code of practice on deer management (drawn up under section 5A of the Deer (Scotland) Act 1996), Forestry and Land Management (Scotland) Bill 3 Part 2—Forestry functions Chapter 1—General forestry functions (v) the Scottish Biodiversity Strategy (prepared under section 2 of the Nature Conservation (Scotland) Act 2004). (2) The forestry strategy must be prepared and revised with a view to achieving consistency, so far as practicable, between the objectives, priorities and policies set out in the strategy 5 and the Scottish Ministers’ other functions. 5 Publication of forestry strategy (1) The Scottish Ministers must publish the forestry strategy and each revision of it. (2) The Scottish Ministers must lay...

Last updated: 10 June 2024

Financial Memorandum Children (Scotland) Bill

The Scottish Government does not expect that contact centres will incur expenditure as a result of regulations laying down provisions on handling complaints.

Last updated: 26 August 2024

NationalOutcomes_SPICeSummaryOfEvidence_16Aug24

Adding ‘free from violence’ would help ensure further accountability to eradicating violence against women and girls in Scotland".

Last updated: 27 April 2023

SPBill27PMS062023accessible

Provision is made in the 2016 Act for the taxation of accounts to allow for the audit and determination of the trustee’s outlays and remuneration by the commissioners or the AiB for each accounting period. 52.

Last updated: 25 November 2021

RTF Session 6 consultation doc FINAL

Others considered that such a body would ensure that the Scottish Government was held to account, with the need for such a body to have ‘teeth’ and ensure that any legislation passed, or policies devised, were implemented in full.

Official Report Meeting date: 24 September 2025