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Is it right that they should have to pay the full television licence fee? There are also people living not too far away from where I live who cannot access any television signals except by having a satellite dish and paying a subscripti...
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Lived-experience participants raised concerns about the sensory challenges of courts, prisons, police stations and other facilities.
Committee reports
Date published:
20 February 2026
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When invited to set out how best to measure the success of these initiatives in five years’ time, the Minister suggested that this should involve listening to those most impacted and ensuring that statistical data analysis is cross referenced with the lived experience of communities. Ms Densham further explained that the Scottish Government wa...
The Bill
The Bill makes provision for a terminally ill person living in England and Wales, aged 18 and above with capacity, who has been ordinarily resident in England or Wales for 12 months and who is registered with a GP practice in England or Wales to be given assistance to end their own life on request.
This demonstrated the value of commissioning the work of a People's Panel to consider an issue which touches the lives of people throughout Scotland.
The People's Panel recommended that there should be an inquiry by a committee in the Parliament on the reported increase of supply of illegal drugs in the prison sector.
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Tara Lillis, representing NASUWT, spoke of the inequality in the current system citing the NASUWT recent cost of living survey which showed that 93 per cent of teacher respondents said that they saw a benefit to school trips more broadly for children and young people but respondents said that there were significant...
We do not have the level of specific provision that is required to meet high-end need, and I think that that concept lives outwith the Bill for me.
This capacity point was also raised by PGL Travel Group who expressed concern that currently there were insufficient facilities to cater for all pupils with complex ASN and said that should the Bill be passed “t...
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Looking at other aspects of the portfolio budget, the National Theatre of Scotland (NTS)—one of the five National Performing Companies—commented that while it was “grateful” to have received a 3% uplift for 2024-25, “this must be viewed in the context of 8 years of standstill funding, inflationary pressures and soaring energy costs as well as a cost-of-living crisis”.16Written submission from National Theatre of Scotland. (2024).
All of the nations of the UK experienced cases where evidence using information obtained from the Horizon IT system infected the process of justice, with a horrendous effect on the lives of those who were incorrectly convicted of offences.
In connection with these concerns about the perceived negative impact on vulnerable groups, Lucy Grieve highlighted some of the testimonies collected by Back Off Scotland:
We have testimonies from refugees who are at extremely vulnerable points in their lives. Members can imagine the impact that there would be on somebody if they were going through some of ...