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Published:
4 April 2024
Holyrood Committee seeks views on the Land Reform Bill
The Bill also requires the Scottish Government to introduce a model lease for environmental purposes which is intended to enable tenants to carry out a wide range of environmental land management activities, including sustainable and regenerative farming.
Committee reports
Date published:
18 March 2024
Stage 1 report on the Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill - Consideration by the DPLRC
The Committee does not believe that – other than where training to a certain standard or a qualification is required for health and safety reasons or in order to undertake specific activities – any CPD should be compulsory or tied to support.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
15 March 2024
Public participation in the Scottish Parliament: Understanding the core principles of deliberative democracy and creating a framework for measuring impact - Citizen's juries/panels
As is the case for later citizens' jury/panel activities, the Sortition Foundation was commissioned to recruit a random stratified sample broadly representative of the Scottish population (as at the 2011 Census), and an expert steering group was used to agree the final question being posed to the jury and ensure that the process was fair, credible and trans...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
28 February 2024
Electoral reform in Scotland and the Scottish Elections (Representation and Reform) Bill - The Electoral Commission in Scotland
The consultation sought views on whether the Scottish Parliament should “take a greater role in oversight of the Electoral Commission’s devolved activities”, for example its spending plans.
News
Published:
7 February 2024
Views sought on changes to Scottish elections
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Other measures in the Bill include:
making it easier to arrange election pilots, which aim to increase voting engagement
allowing the Scottish Government to fund activities to increase democratic engagement
clarifying the information that needs to be on digital election materials posted by an organisation that isn’t a regulated ca...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
31 January 2024
Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) (Scotland) Bill - Gillian Mackay MSP's consultation on safe access zones legislation
Retrieved from <a href="https://www.bufferzones.scot/consultation-results" target="_blank">https://www.bufferzones.scot/consultation-results</a> [accessed 20 December 2023]. 99.6% of the responses received were submitted by individuals, including clinicians, people who have accessed abortion services, people who have taken part in anti-abortion activity, and wider members of the public.
Committee reports
Date published:
24 October 2023
How Devolution is Changing Post-EU - Intergovernmental Relations
Retrieved from <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-review-of-intergovernmental-relations" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-review-of-intergovernmental-relations</a> [accessed 17 May 2022]The review also sets out the following principles for collaborative working –
Maintaining positive and constructive relations, based on mutual respect for the responsibilities of the governments and their shared role in the governance of the UK;
Building and maintaining trust, based on effective communication;
Sharing information and respecting confidentiality;
Promoting understanding of, and accountability for, their intergovernmental activity...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
5 October 2023
Report from a partial evaluation of the Lobbying (Scotland) Act 2016 - Scope of the evaluation
This was supported by a text analysis of lobbying returns to assess common topics and themes present in regulated lobbying activity. Representatives from registered organisations were also surveyed for their assessments of the administrative effort involved in complying with the reporting duty.
Last updated:
28 September 2023
Code of Conduct for lobbying MSPs
This includes if it also governs other activities. Please note, not all organisations will subscribe to such a code.
Committee reports
Date published:
28 June 2023
Subordinate legislation considered by the Rural Affairs and Islands Committee on 28 June 2023 - Policy background
The instrument expands the scope of the 2008 Order in relation to the range of agricultural industry sectors that the AHDB may operate in across the UK and which the policy note states “will benefit from AHDB expertise”. The additional activities that the AHDB may undertake under its expanded scope are to be funded on a commercial basis through those indust...
