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Committee reports
Date published:
28 February 2025
Legislative Consent Memorandum: delegated powers relevant to Scotland in the Tobacco and Vapes Bill - Overview of the Bill
It is stated in the explanatory notes for the Bill that it builds on the existing legislative framework, seeking to broadly align provisions across the UK and that the core measures in the Bill will:
create a smoke-free generation, gradually ending the sale of tobacco products across the country, so children born on or after 1 January 2009 will never be legally sold these products, and break the cycle of addiction and disadvantage;
strengthen the existing powers to ban smoking in public places to reduce harms of passive smoking, particularly around children and vulnerable people;
ban vapes and nicotine products from being deliberately branded, promoted, and advertised to children to stop the next generation from becoming hooked on nicotine; and
provide powers to introduce a licensing scheme for the retail sale of tobacco, vapes and nicotine products, extend the retail registration scheme in Scotland, and strengthen enforcement activity...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
19 December 2024
Scottish Parliament Statistics 2022-2023 - 4.3.2. Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee
Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee
Established: 15 June 2021
Remit: To consider and report on the following (and any additional matter added under Rule 6.1.5A)—
(a) the Scottish Government’s EU and external affairs policy;
(b) policy in relation to the UK’s exit from the EU;
(c) the international activities of the Scottish Administ...
Last updated:
13 November 2024
Health and safety policy
The Senior Executive Team (SET) has a collective responsibility to:
Visibly demonstrate commitment to ensuring health and safety.
Be actively involved in improving health and safety.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
4 November 2024
Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill - Republished - How the Current Law May Apply to Healthcare Professionals
It highlights two cases involving doctors in England who took an active role in supporting suicides which led to investigation but not prosecution.
Committee reports
Date published:
7 October 2024
Remote and Rural Healthcare Inquiry - Remote and Rural Workforce Recruitment Strategy
The Committee therefore calls on the Scottish Government, in responding to this report, to set out how it intends to ensure the Strategy actively contributes to meeting that goal.
Committee reports
Date published:
9 September 2024
Post-legislative scrutiny of the Social Care (Self-directed Support) (Scotland) Act 2013: Phase 2 - Sustainability of the sector
Participants in the engagement workstreams in Phase 1 argued that, to improve sustainability, there is a need to focus on:
Recruitment and retention of social care and social work staff
Fair work for social care and social work staff, including standardised pay and terms and conditions
Increased support for social care providers
Investment in leadership across sectors to deliver relationship-based support
Ensuring workforce planning is orientated towards demand rather than supply
Regulation of the whole social care workforce
It is the Committee's view that activities...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
14 August 2024
Education (Scotland) Bill - Inspection
The Bill provides that the Chief Inspector must produce and publish a plan which sets out the approach to inspections, including the level of inspection activity, the approaches to inspections; and the standards against which establishments will be evaluated.
Committee reports
Date published:
2 July 2024
Police (Ethics, Conduct and Scrutiny) (Scotland) Bill Stage 1 Report - Possible duplication of roles: PIRC and HMICS
Section 85 of the 2012 Act places a duty on PIRC and HMICS to “co-operate and co-ordinate activity with each other with a view to improving the carrying out of their respective functions in relation to the Authority and the Police Service”, and to make arrangements with a view to “(preventing any unnecessary duplication in relation to any inspections, inves...
News
Published:
21 June 2024
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Healing Arts Scotland is a country-wide week-long activation, celebrating and advocating for improved physical, mental and social health through the arts.
Committee reports
Date published:
25 March 2024
Inquiry into a just transition for the North East and Moray - The role of the Scottish National Investment Bank
At the same time as supply chain companies pivot their activities towards renewables, the market is becoming more competitive.
