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This will provide an opportunity for the successor committee to take a view on whether the revised Deer Code has adequately addressed the concerns raised to this Committee.
Committee reports
Date published:
3 September 2025
The amendments to clause 46 are intended to ensure that, where regulations are made by the Scottish Ministers under clause 46 providing for a failure to comply with guidance or a code of practice issued in terms of those regulations, the guidance or code of practice must be laid before the Scottish Parliament and sub...
Evidence session Minister for Parliamentary Business
The Committee held an evidence session with the Minister for Parliamentary Business on 23 November 2023 which considered a wide range of matters related to the Committee’s remit and the Minister’s portfolio.
Code of Conduct for MSPs
The Committee has considered potential revisions to the Code of Conduct for MSPs.
Committee reports
Date published:
20 November 2023
The policy memorandum acknowledges “there is no single definition of peatland”. The current muirburn code defines peat as exceeding 50cm but the Scottish Government committed to review this in response to the GMMG report.
The act requires ministers to publish a Scottish pubs code and appoint a Scottish pubs code adjudicator who has responsibility for overseeing and enforcing the code.
We have not dictated what the codes should be; instead, we have set out key areas that the codes should cover, but we have left the commissioner with the flexibility to decide exactly what codes they prepare.
The leaflet also explains about the code of practice and our function. In the past few weeks, we have received our first two complaints about the code of practice.
It would be referred to as being “PACE code D compliant”, because it would comply with code of practice D under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984.
Document subject to parliamentary control: The Committee will consider the following— Draft Code of Practice: The Non-Party Campaigner Campaign Expenditure (Scottish Parliament Elections) Code of Practice 2025 (SG/2025/289) 5.