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Date published:
27 February 2026
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee Report on the Draft Climate Change Plan - Costs and benefits
The draft Plan cautions that the estimates it sets out: "... are based on forecasts to 2040 and so rely on a series of assumptions, meaning there is a degree of uncertainty and they represent best estimates. In reality, costs and benefits are likely to change as a result of economic and technological factors."
Committee reports
Date published:
17 December 2025
Stage 1 Report on the Children (Care, Care Experience and Services Planning) (Scotland) Bill - Children's Services Planning
Another aspect, which is even more important in the areas where children's services are not integrated and sit solely on the health side, is about how to bring together children's health services and children's social work services to best meet children's needs. We have high levels of complexity - we have children with neurodiversity and with mental health ...
Committee reports
Date published:
2 July 2024
Police (Ethics, Conduct and Scrutiny) (Scotland) Bill Stage 1 Report - Should the PIRC assess and investigate complaints about officers?
Deputy Chief Constable Speirs said that the PSD is best placed to assess and investigate complaints about police officers, as the staff are trained to do so and committed to trying to be as efficient and effective as they can be.
Committee reports
Date published:
22 April 2024
Stage 1 report on the Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) (Scotland) Bill - Establishment of safe access zones
It was felt, on balance, that consistency is the best way forward, because that will mean that there is clarity for women who are accessing services, for Police Scotland and for people who want to protest or demonstrate.
Committee reports
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8 February 2024
Stage 1 Report on the Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Bill - The case for independent regulation versus the existing framework
She considered independent regulation was the best way to protect consumer interests including by “promoting competition among providers” as this would lead to “improved choice and innovation and support wider public interest issues”6Scottish Parliament. (2023, October 3).
Committee reports
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21 December 2023
Stage 1 Report on Visitor Levy (Scotland) Bill - Views of businesses and the tourism sector
meetingId=15389</a> The Bill Team further confirmed that guidance and best practice developed by the expert group would also address the mechanisms that a local authority could put in place to decide how the funding is used.
Committee reports
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20 November 2023
Stage 1 report on the Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Bill - The need for additional regulation of moorland to address raptor persecution?
NatureScot agreed with the link between raptor persecution and grouse moors and the evidence that there are some grouse moors that “are unoccupied by some of our best raptors”. It went on to refer to the ambition of the Bill and told members—
it is a mistake to look at the bill only through the lens of raptor persecution.
Committee reports
Date published:
3 July 2023
Report on Public Administration - effective Scottish Government decision-making - Churn
As we heard, the traditional approach of having largely generalist civil servants has evolved over time with a greater desire to ensure that people with the best skills are retained. As such, concerns were raised with us that specialists, are in particular, more likely to hit a career buffer if they want to stay in that policy area and that, in general, mor...
Committee reports
Date published:
13 June 2023
Stage 1 Report for Children (Care and Justice) (Scotland) Bill - Section 4: Compulsory supervision orders: movement restriction conditions
The Committee notes that a decision to impose an MRC should only be taken where it is in the best interests of the child, a proportionate response to the risks posed to or by the child, and where other less restrictive measures have been fully explored.
Committee reports
Date published:
23 March 2023
New vessels for the Clyde and Hebrides: Arrangements to deliver vessels 801 and 802 - Events before nationalisation
Four bids were received, with Deloitte assessing the Scottish Government’s bid as “representing the best return for creditors”.
Two days before FMEL entered administration, the Scottish Government appointed a Turnaround Director to conduct an initial assessment over a period of 11 weeks of—
what work had, and had not, been completed on the vessels to date
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