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Budget scrutiny 2026-27
On 13 January 2026, the Scottish Government introduced the Budget (Scotland) (No. 5) Bill. A Budget Bill is lodged annually to allow the Scottish Parliament to consider the Scottish Government’s tax and public spending proposals before the new financia...
Committee reports
Date published:
11 December 2025
The Committee recommends that the reporting requirements in section 45 of the Bill are strengthened so that the Scottish Government is required to report at mandatory intervals on the operation of the Bill.
A Holyrood Committee is calling for views on a Scottish Government Bill which proposes the establishment of a new Patient Safety Commissioner in Scotland..
Education, training and raising awareness
A key motivation for the Bill is the perceived impact it would have on raising awareness of the scale and seriousness of violent and abusive behaviour against retail workers.
2019 policy developments
Since the Government consulted, there have been a couple of significant policy developments relating to mediation.
First, a proposal for a Member's Bill by Margaret Mitchell MSP. The Bill would require that, when a case first comes before a court, a duty mediator would be required to meet wi...
This power is in paragraph 3(1) of Schedule 5A to the 1997 Act, inserted by section 10(2) and (3) of the Bill. In the letter of 9 February from Andy Kinnaird, we agreed with the Committee’s suggestion that types of land that may not be included in a SDZ should be set out on the face of the Bill, with a power to add o...
To ask the First Minister for what reason there has reportedly been no financial agreement between the Scottish Funding Council and the University of Dundee, in light of the alternative financial recovery plan being launched four weeks ago.
Questions and Answers
Date lodged:
7 December 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the impact on the delivery of its Covid Recovery Strategy of the Auditor General's comments that it underspent its budget by £2 billion in the financial year 2021-22.
Questions and Answers
Date lodged:
7 December 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of how any additional cost of living pressures will impact on the rebuilding of public services, as set out in its Covid Recovery Strategy, in particular public services in Edinburgh.