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Date published:
19 March 2025
Stage 1 report on the Land Reform (Scotland) Bill - Rules of Good Husbandry and Estate Management
We need to continue to discuss the issue, but I am not sure that the bill quite gets there".iiiNet Zero, Energy and Transport Committee, Official Report, 17 December 2024, col 52 SLE said that to facilitate "efficient, sustainable and regenerative" production requires a clearer understanding of "the compatibility between efficient production and sustainable...
Committee reports
Date published:
19 March 2025
Stage 1 report on the Land Reform (Scotland) Bill - Penalties
They suggested either repeat fines or a system of escalating penalties, potentially using cross-compliance.iiiWritten submissions including Andy Wightman, Development Trusts Association Scotland, Cosaig Growers, Wellbeing Economy Alliance Scotland CLS set out a “staged escalation process” in their written submission:
Stage 1 escalation – a fine of “considerably more than £5000”;
Stage 2 escalation – LCC can impose a LMP Order creating an obligation to produce a LMP, with failure to act leading to a public report from the LCC and the LCC being able to initiate action to impact landowner’s entitlement to public funds;
Stage 3 escalation – continued breach reported as a criminal offence or LCC given powers to order the sale of the land.Written submission of Community Land Scotland
Cross-compliance was considered a useful tool by a number of stakeholders.iNet Zero, Energy and Transport Committee, Official Report, 18 June 2024, cols 13-14; Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee, Official Report, 5 November 2024, cols 18, 28, 42; Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee, Official Report, 26 November 2024, col 49 The SLC recommended utilising cross-compliance penalties when a landowner is in breach of an obligation, including restricting access to public financial support such as agricultural payments or forestry grants.viiiScottish Land Commission, The Land Reform Bill - Part 1: Advice to Ministers (January 2025) Don Macleod (Turcan Connell) suggested cross-compliance “makes a lot of sense”: “If the state is paying out money to farmers or estate owners to do something, that is good, but if that person is not fulfilling their contract or other things that the state requires them to do, it makes a lot of sense for them not to get...
Committee reports
Date published:
17 January 2025
Follow-up inquiry into salmon farming in Scotland - Mortality figures and targets
She told the Committee that “I do not want to get into that— the Committee asked me during my previous appearance about what an optimum target would be, but I do not think that that is a helpful conversation to have”.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
6 December 2024
Scottish Budget 2025-26 - New NDR relief
His proposition would cost more than £350 million, and we would not get that money from the UK Government.
Committee reports
Date published:
27 November 2024
Interim report on petition PE1758: End greyhound racing in Scotland - Traceability of greyhounds
A GBGB-registered trainer told the Committee that, “When we get dogs from Ireland, they are already microchipped” and are then subsequently registered with the GBGB.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
14 November 2024
Criminal Justice Modernisation and Abusive Domestic Behaviour Reviews (Scotland) Bill - Introduction
The Bill includes provisions:
defining and setting out the scope of domestic homicide and suicide reviews
allowing for the establishment of relevant bodies to carry out the work involved in reviews
setting out how those bodies will get the cooperation and information they need
seeking to ensure that reviews do not prejudice other investigations or proceedin...
News
Published:
30 October 2024
Holyrood’s Net Zero Committee to visit Scottish Border estates to further its scrutiny of the Land Reform (Scotland) Bill
These include understanding how the Bill will impact estates of differing sizes and models of ownership. It also lets us get a sense of how rural communities in the South of Scotland feel about land reform and how they might be affected by the provisions in the Bill.
News
Published:
19 September 2024
Holyrood’s Net Zero Committee to visit Highland Perthshire estates to further its scrutiny of the Land Reform (Scotland) Bill
Speaking in advance of the visit, Committee Convener, Edward Mountain MSP said;
“We hope that this visit will bring to life some of the issues which have been discussed during the evidence sessions we’ve held with a range of experts at the Scottish Parliament. It should also help us get to the heart of how the Bill will impact the management of ...
Committee reports
Date published:
2 July 2024
Police (Ethics, Conduct and Scrutiny) (Scotland) Bill Stage 1 Report - Views on the proposals in the Bill
They said that—
“In our experience we had seen that Police initially did not investigate a complaint, therefore PIRC could not investigate it, it then took about a year to get it to PIRC and PIRC in turn took a year.
News
Published:
12 June 2024
Holyrood’s Net Zero Committee hosts expert panel discussion on the Land Reform (Scotland) Bill at the Royal Highland Show
In doing so, it rebalances the landlord-tenant relationship and it is crucial for us to consider whether the Bill gets the balance right.
“With such an informed line-up of panellists and an anticipated audience of passionate stakeholders, we look forward to hosting an event that will really allow us to capture and discuss some of the key issues at pla...
