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SPICe briefings
Date published:
30 October 2025
Greyhound Racing (Offences) (Scotland) Bill - Scottish Government memorandum (position on the Bill) and previous consultation on licensing
It also sets out that while the Scottish Government supports the general principles of the Bill, it "will seek to work with the Member to bring forward some changes to it":
"For example, we will seek an amendment to the Bill so that it commences on a date to be specified by Scottish Ministers in regulations, rather than its current provision for fixed comme...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
16 October 2025
Palliative care and assisted dying - Expenditure
The most recent ‘official’ source of how much is spent dates back to 2008 and comes from Audit Scotland.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
14 October 2025
Contract (Formation and Remedies) (Scotland) Bill - History behind the project
Retrieved from https://www.scotlawcom.gov.uk/files/1115/2222/5222/Report_on_Review_of_Contract_Law_-_Formation_Interpretation_Remedies_for_Breach_and_Penalty_Clauses_Report_No_252.pdf [accessed 20 June 2025]The unimplemented reports themselves suggest that certain of the issues with Scottish contract law (e.g. in relation to formation of contracts) are even more long-standing and date back to when the SLC was set up in 1965.
Committee reports
Date published:
17 September 2025
Supplementary Delegated Powers in the Criminal Justice Modernisation and Abusive Domestic Behaviour Reviews (Scotland) Bill (as amended at Stage 2)
Review of relevant powers
Section 5A(2): Power to modify list of persons issued with and wearing ‘body-worn video cameras’
Power conferred on: Scottish Ministers
Power exercisable by: Regulations made by Scottish statutory instrument
Parliamentary procedure: Negative
Revised or new power: New
Provision
Section 5A of the Bill inserts a new section 283A into the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995, which, in some circumstances, provides that when body-worn video footage is produced in evidence by the prosecution, and any or all of the date...
Committee reports
Date published:
19 June 2025
SPCB Supported Bodies Landscape Review - Sharing services
In general, however, public bodies should embrace the sharing of services and I hope that they will do that more than they have done to date.”4Stephen Boyle, Auditor General for Scotland. (2025, March 13).
SPICe briefings
Date published:
12 March 2025
Scottish Parliament (Recall and Removal of Members) Bill - The process for filling vacant seats at the Scottish Parliament
Section 10 of the Scotland Act 1998 relates to vacant regional seatsiiThe Standing Orders set out that the Presiding Officer will determine the date of a vacancy for a regional seat..
Committee reports
Date published:
20 September 2024
Stage 1 Report on Housing (Scotland) Bill: Part 5 (homelessness prevention) and Part 6 (other housing matters - fuel poverty) - Equalities related issues
The Committee draws the Scottish Government’s attention to the fact that it only had sight of the Equality Impact Assessment (EQIA) when it was published at a late date, on 21 June 2024. This not only affected the Committee’s consideration of these aspects, but importantly could have impacted stakeholders’ ability to contribute to the scrutiny of the Bill.
Last updated:
2 July 2024
Chapter 9B Consent in Relation to UK Parliament Bills
A motion on legislative consent shall identify the relevant Bill by reference to its short title and the House of the UK Parliament in which and the date on which it was introduced.
1A. A motion on legislative consent may seek either or both—
(a) consent to one or more relevant provisions, and
(b) refusal of consent to one or more other relevant provi...
Committee reports
Date published:
28 February 2024
Stage 1 Report on the Circular Economy (Scotland) Bill - Conclusions and recommendations - A Framework Bill
We support the recommendation of the Finance and Public Administration Committee that the updates the Minister committed to provide to that Committee should be sent every six months and these should include "updated information on the expenditure incurred to date, any changes in forecast costs and any savings arising from the Bill and the subsequent Act (su...
News
Published:
19 February 2024
Land Managers and Community Representatives invited to Holyrood for Agriculture & Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill Summit
The Scottish Government believes this approach – a framework bill with the policy details made by regulations at a later date – would give it the flexibility to respond, “to future social, economic and environmental changes, challenges and opportunities”.
