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SPICe briefings
Date published:
16 December 2025
Scottish Parliament Statistics 2024-2025
EIRs can be used to request information on:
environmental information and statistics
environmental policies and best practice
carbon footprint information
information about our grounds and environment at Holyrood
Environmental Information RequestsNumber of EIR RequestsMay 24 (from 13 May)1Jun 240Jul 240Aug 240Sep 241Oct 242Nov 240Dec 240Jan 250Feb 250Mar 25...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
10 August 2023
Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Bill
The report made a number of recommendations for change, These included:
the Law Society reviewing the impact of its price transparency guidance and working with consumer bodies to consider how providers can best strengthen transparency on levels of quality
implementation of the existing provisions for ABSs in the 2010 Act and further liberalisation by remov...
Committee reports
Date published:
5 November 2021
Pre-Budget Scrutiny 2022-23: Scotland's Public Finances in 2022-23 and the Impact of COVID-19
We ask the Scottish Government to consider how it might best support these sectors to recover, rejuvenate the high street and grow the economy.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
27 June 2022
Judicial Review
P.B. 2020, 155, 7.One legal commentator explained the resulting dilemma (and possible solution) in this way:
... there is a clear risk that if someone decides to pursue a complaint to the SPSO, and it later transpires that the complaint raises issues more suited to be dealt with by ... the court, that the person will be out with the time limit for raising such proceedings... it will be best practice to consider at the earliest possible stage whether judicial review proceedings may be appropriate.
Committee reports
Date published:
22 September 2017
Stage 1 Report on the Wild Animals in Travelling Circuses (Scotland) Bill
The Committee received several written submissions highlighting the deep affection for animals within a circus environment and how, both emotionally and economically, it was not in the circuses' interests to provide anything but the very best care and environment for animals.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
27 March 2020
Revised UK Agriculture Bill 2020
Scottish MPs raised that they felt the Bill was straying into areas of devolved competence;
the need for new measures of success for agriculture beyond yield;
the lack of provision for farm advice in the Bill, to support farmers to make the transition;
a lack of vision to protect rural communities;
a lack of provision to protect agricultural workers;
Environment:
the need to maintain food production abroad so not to risk offshoring the UK's environmental impact;
disappointment that the Bill is not clearer about financially rewarding a transition to 'agroecology', or a whole-farm approach to agriculture with the environment at its core;
the need to enshrine baseline environmental standards that all farmers should adhere to, whether in receipt of funding or not, and the lack of provision for this in the Bill;
that the Bill is not ambitious enough about climate change or the environment by banning the most damaging practices and taking on board best...
Committee reports
Date published:
19 November 2019
Report on STEM in early years education
The Committee has heard about the barriers to success for these initiatives and also explored how best practice can be shared.
The Committee held an evidence session on 27 March 2019 to discuss the possible focus of a STEM inquiry.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
25 May 2022
Social Work in Scotland
The children's hearing is a multi-agency legal meeting where decisions are made in the best interests of the child or young person and can include compulsory measures of care, for example, setting out where a child must live.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
5 April 2019
EU Emissions Trading System
Despite this, Sandbag argue that the best outcome for international climate action would be for the UK to remain in the EU ETS post-Brexit.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
28 November 2023
Scottish Parliament Statistics 2021-2022
The rules state:
There are to be at least 3 but no more than 6 Fund trustees;
The Scottish Parliament may resolve to appoint as a Fund trustee any individual nominated by the SPCB as suitable to hold that office;
The SPCB must, when deciding who to nominate—
(a) do its best to ensure that the Fund trustees include a participating member and a scheme pension...
