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Last updated: 8 October 2024

Animal Welfare CPGAW AnnualReturnForm for AGM 110924

Gareth Hateley: shortage of people available to type animals. Agenda item 8 – Next meeting Date of next meeting agreed for early September (post-summer recess).
Last updated: 1 December 2025

Letter from CabSecCAE response to the Committees letter regarding the Biodiversity Beyond National J

Whilst we still expect to lodge the planned supplementary LCM with the Scottish Parliament for the remaining clauses, including any amendments, by mid-December, we now expect the Lords Report Stage to take place after Christmas recess. This means the consent process does not need to be finalised before Christmas recess, but instead in early January.
Last updated: 21 November 2025

Guidance on Legislative Consent

In practice, this means most weekdays during a session, other than days of recess or public holidays. Guidance on Legislative Consent Annex B: List of key terms Dates of recess, and days on which the office of the Clerk is open, are listed on the Parliament’s website, under About / Recess dates stages of Bills (in the UK Parliament) – following introduction of a Bill in either the House of Commons or House of Lords, Bills generally go through the following stages in each House: Second Reading (a general debate on the Bill’s purpose), Committee Stage (the main amending stage, taken in a committee), Report Stage (a second amending stage, taken in the Chamber) and Third Reading (another general debate, preceding the decision whether to pass the Bill – which includes, in the House of Lords, a limited further opportunity for amendments).
Questions and Answers Date answered: 25 June 2021

S6W-00617

We are consulting on the bill over the summer and the Parliament will then scrutinise it after the summer recess. S6W-00617
Official Report Meeting date: 29 March 2018

Meeting of the Parliament 29 March 2018

Will she commit to ensuring that a formal start date for the long overdue introduction of RET on routes serving Orkney and Shetland is announced before Parliament returns after the Easter recess?
Official Report Meeting date: 21 June 2017

Meeting of the Parliament 21 June 2017

That the Parliament agrees the following parliamentary recess dates under Rule 2.3.1, 10 to 18 February 2018 (inclusive), 31 March to 15 April 2018 (inclusive), 30 June to 2 September 2018 (inclusive), 6 to 21 October 2018 (inclusive) and 22 December 2018 to 6 January 2019 (inclusive).
Last updated: 19 April 2024

Chief Executive Report March 2024

Legislation Team A higher number of amending stages for Bills than usual can be expected in the period post-Easter recess up to summer recess, due to delays in some Bills and other Bills requiring to be completed by end June.
Last updated: 16 November 2020

EN Scottish General Election Coronavirus Bill

But otherwise such references are unaffected and are still to be read as references to 6 May 2021 (or the date fixed by the Presiding Officer under section 11 of the Bill in the event that the 6 May poll date is postponed). 32.
SPICe briefings Date published: 19 December 2022

Budget 2023-24 - Economic growth and inflation

On economic growth, the SFC notes that Scotland is already in a recession which is expected to last six quarters, with a ‘peak to trough’ fall in GDP of 1.8 % (in other words, the lowest GDP is expected to fall compared to the start of the recession is by 1.8 percentage points).
Official Report Meeting date: 7 May 2019

Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee 07 May 2019

Again, though, we quite quickly run into the summer recess, and that will have an impact on committees and the Government’s own resource and time.

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