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I remind the committee, and inform the witnesses, that large aspects of the land issue will be examined by the Rural Affairs, Climate Change and Environment Committee, and this committee will feed what it has heard here into those deliberations. I am keen to hear Mr Brown’s comments on the issue of abandonment.
Public Health Scotland is committed to supporting that, but it would be good to outline how the commission will work with us and with other stakeholders to enable that to happen.
Mhairi Brown from the Food, Farming and Countryside Commission Scotland highlighted a lack of clarity around capacity and resourcing of the Scottish Food Commission:
… it is not cl...
Consideration by the Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
At its meeting on 27 May 2025, the Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee took evidence on the instrument from:
Gillian Martin, Acting Cabinet Secretary for Net Zero and Energy, Scottish Government
Alex Brown, Packaging Senior Policy adviser, Scottish Government
Ailsa Heine, Solicitor, Scottis...
She commented that—
I have real concerns about the impact of the amount of administration, resource and capacity that those cases will take up in the system if we do not do something about that cohort, which has had a different journey through the criminal justice system because of Covid, and extensions have to be applied for in every individual case.iiOfficial Report, Criminal Justice Committee, 22 January 2025, col 54
Her particular concern was about the risk of cases timing out and victims not receiving justice.
Simon Brown...
Committee reports
Date published:
15 September 2023
Col 56 The suggestion that section 72 should be amended to exclude spouses or civil partners who had separated at the time of death was supported by a number of stakeholders including Paul BrownvWritten evidence, Paul Brown and Laura Dunbar from the Faculty of Advocates.Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee.
., which is approximately three times greater than the annual carbon sequestration of Scottish Forestry (9.6-11 Mt CO2-eq per year6Thistlethwaite, G., Smith, H., Brown, P., MacCarthy, J., Pang, Y., Passant, N., … Misselbrook, T. (2020).
Written Evidence
Scottish Women's Convention
Scottish Grocers’ Federation
United Private Hire Drivers, Glasgow
Scottish Retail Consortium
Unite Scotland
Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service
Police Scotland
Scottish Co-operative Party
Scottish Trades Union Congress
Federation of Small Businesses
StoneHawk
Association of Convenience Stores Limited
Co-operative Group
Usdaw
Law Society of Scotland
UK Hospitality
GMB Scotland
It's not part of the job - Scottish Co-operative Party
The following sent submissions via the Scottish Co-operative Party's campaign.
Cian Ireland
David Brown...
Committee reports
Date published:
26 November 2019
The rates of suicide and contributory factors
The genesis of this inquiry by the Justice Committee was the tragic deaths in custody of Katie Allan and William Brown, also known as William Lindsay.
Committee reports
Date published:
13 September 2017
Local Government and Communities Committee 24 May 2017, David Brown, contrib. 148, http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/report.aspx?