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Committee reports
Date published:
3 October 2025
Stage 1 Report on the Community Wealth Building (Scotland) Bill - Annexe A - Extract of Minutes
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10th Meeting, 2025 (Session 6), Wednesday 26 March 2025
Community Wealth Building (Scotland) Bill (In Private): The Committee considered its approach to the scrutiny of the Bill at Stage 1 and agreed to continue consideration at its next meeting.
11th Meeting, 2025 (Session 6), Wednesday 2 April 2025
Community Wealth Building (Scotland) Bill (In Private): The Committee considered its approach to the scrutiny of the Bill at Stage 1 and agreed (1) to launch a call for views; (2) the schedule of witnesses; and (3) to undertake engagement activities...
Committee reports
Date published:
2 October 2025
Strengthening committees' effectiveness - The approach of Scottish Parliament committees
As is explained in the executive summary of the report, people's panels help to empower citizens to actively contribute and deliberate on key issues.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
9 September 2025
Restraint and Seclusion in Schools (Scotland) Bill - Reporting of incidents
The report continued "some families stated that they had only been informed that their child had been restrained and/or secluded after they directly asked someone at the school about injuries their child had returned home from school with."1The Challenging Behaviour Foundation and Positive and Active Behaviour Support Scotland. (2020).
SPICe briefings
Date published:
31 July 2025
The intergovernmental relations 'reset': one year on - Summary
This underlines the vital importance both of intergovernmental relations and the ability of the two Governments to work together effectively, and of the role of the UK and Scottish Parliaments in scrutinising that activity.
However, the Committee has raised concerns about the transparency of intergovernmental engagement and cooperation.
Committee reports
Date published:
19 June 2025
SPCB Supported Bodies Landscape Review - Alternative governance models
If we are creating a two-tier system in which some commissioners have all this scrutiny and parliamentary activity around whether they are performing their duties, while a separate group of commissioners do not have the same level of oversight, I would raise questions about how those other bodies are scrutinised.”5Dr Ian Elliott, University of Glasgow. (202...
Committee reports
Date published:
22 May 2025
A blueprint for participation - embedding deliberative democracy in the work of the Scottish Parliament - Introduction
Also sometimes called mini-publics or Citizens' Juries.Deliberative democracyMethods (including People's Panels) that allow participants to contribute to policy-making by discussing a topic in a structured, open and informed way that encourages consensusPublic (or citizen) participationAny way in which members of the public can play an active part in the Pa...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
14 May 2025
The right to know: freedom of information in Scotland - The Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004: Access to information about the environment
The EU adopted the Access to Environmental Information Directive (2003/4/EC) to require that its member states (as the UK was at the time) comply with the first pillar of the Aarhus Convention (which establishes rights to access information on the environment held by public authorities and requires the active dissemination of environmental information by th...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
29 April 2025
Natural Environment (Scotland) Bill - What the Bill does (sections 2-4)
Procedure: Regulations using the power in section 3 must be made using the affirmative procedure where that use of powers:
(a) creates an offence
(b) amends an existing offence in a manner that increases the range of activity that is to constitute a criminal offence,
(c) confers a power to— (i) arrest a person, (ii) search a person, (iii) enter and search a...
Committee reports
Date published:
31 January 2025
Post-legislative scrutiny of the Child Poverty (Scotland) Act 2017 - Data for tracking trends in poverty at local level
iSocial Justice and Social Security Committee, Official Report, 21 November 2024, Col 7
An issue raised by some in the written submissions received is the quality of data used to report on local activity.
NHS Lanarkshire indicated in their submission that ‘inconsistencies or gaps in data reporting can hinder meaningful assessments’.
Committee reports
Date published:
18 December 2024
Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee Report on a Legislative Consent Memorandum (LCM) for the Renters' Rights Bill - The LCM
As the 2022 White Paper, “A fairer private rented sector” noted:
While most landlords provide a professional service to their tenants, there is evidence that some landlords and agents are actively discouraging, or even preventing people in receipt of benefits or with children from renting their properties.
