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It is intended that the legislation receives Royal Assent by 5 March 2026 to allow prioritisation to be implemented for training programme recruitment rounds that are currently live and would affect those receiving offers for training posts starting in August 2026.
Assisted Dying Bill
The Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill is a Member's Bill introduced by Liam McArthur MSP on 27 March 2024. It is at Stage 3. The Lead Committee for the Bill is the Health, Social Care and Sport Committee.
Committee reports
Date published:
19 December 2025
Such attrition would further reduce officer numbers to fewer than 15,500 by March 2027, with a significant reduction in visible policing, prevention work, delays in responding to calls from the public and a severe impact on our ability to respond to major events.
While some Local Authorities proceeded immediately with two offers of accommodation and issued 60-day notices as early as March 2024, others were more cautious.
The Government published details of this analysis in March 2025. The Government also said "a short-life working group was established in October 2023 to look at the role of accreditation and regulation of qualifications and how it currently operates in relation to other forms of oversight across the wider qualifications system."
It recommended that the Bill should not progress in its current form and said that there was insufficient detail on the face of the Bill to allow for meaningful parliamentary scrutiny.
The Bill completed Stage 2 on 4 March 2025. The Scottish Government produced a Supplementary Delegated Powers Memorandum (“SDPM”) covering the delegated powers as amended at ...
These SSIs represent the second of two pieces of subordinate legislation required for each pension scheme in order to fully remedy the discrimination and are required by the Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Act 2022 (“the 2022 Act”), which received Royal Assent on 10 March 2022.
The 2022 Act requires responsible authorities for public service pe...
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Creative Scotland cited a recently published report from an independent review of their COVID-19 emergency funding programmes from March 2020 to September 2021, the value which totalled £85m.
This is echoed in work by the Scottish Leaders Forum (SLF)iThe Scottish Leaders Forum (SLF) is where Scotland’s senior leaders come together to agree individual and collective action in pursuit of Scotland’s national purpose and outcomes as set out in the NPF. In March 2022 it published a report into Leadership, Collective Ownership and Delivering the Natio...