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Date answered:
12 January 2023
S6W-13436
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will lay regulations to amend Council Tax (Variation for Unoccupied Dwellings) (Scotland) Regulations 2013 to give effect to the motion S6M-05106 that was agreed, as amended, by the Parliament on 22 June 2022, in advance of the date prescribed in the Local Government Finance Act 1992 of when local authorities are r...
Committee reports
Date published:
20 August 2020
Work of the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee 2019-20
This rule provides that 28 days should elapse between the laying of a negative instrument before the Parliament and the coming into force of that instrument.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
19 April 2024
Scotland's Commissioner Landscape - A Strategic Approach - Considerations for the coherence of Scotland's Commissioner model
Commissioners are used to hold those with power accountable due to an accountability gap in Scotland.
Committee reports
Date published:
17 November 2017
Legislative Consent Memorandum on the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill - Regulations made by UK Ministers acting alone and laid in the UK Parliament
Professor Page suggested that the section 57 process had not always provided an effective means of holding the Scottish Ministers to account:
“…the Scottish ministers have not necessarily been accountable for the transposition of EU legislation.
Last updated:
14 December 2022
ScrutinyoftheNationalCareServiceBill
The Everyone Home Collective was not convinced that centralised accountability would lead to improvement. The Alliance agreed that ministerial accountability is a good concept, but noted that there also needs to be a system that ensures that party-political change does not affect people’s access to accountability structures.
Last updated:
3 December 2025
SPBill57AS062025
P ART 2A 35 T RANSITIONAL MEASURES 17A Statement on financial implications As soon as reasonably practicable after Royal Assent, the Scottish Ministers must lay before the Scottish Parliament a statement on the financial implications of any transfer of functions arising from this Act. 19 Tertiary Education and Training (Funding and Governance) (Scotland) Bill Part 3—Student support P ART 3 1 S TUDENT SUPPORT 18 Designation of private providers of higher and further education (1) The Education (Scotland) Act 1980 is modified as follows. 5 (2) After section 74 insert— “74A Designation of private providers of higher and further education (1) The Scottish Ministers may, on application by a relevant education provider, designate the provider for the purpose of this section. (2) In this section, “relevant education provider” means a person or body which— 10 (a) provides higher education or further education, and 1 (b) carries on activities in Scotland or in another part of the United Kingdom. (2A) A relevant education provider is to be treated as having been designated for the purpose of this section if— (a) the Secretary of State has designated the provider under section 84 of 15 the Higher Education and Research Act 2017, (b) the Welsh Ministers have designated the provider under section 83 of the Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Act 2022, or (c) the Department of Education in Northern Ireland has designated the provider’s courses as eligible for student support under Article 3 of the 20 Education (Student Support) (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 (1998/1760) (N.I. 14). (3) A provider which has been designated for the purpose of this section may apply to the Scottish Ministers for particular courses of education it provides to be approved for the payment of allowances or loans by virtue of section 25 73(f) of this Act. (4) The Scottish Ministers may by regulations make provision about— (a) the process for applying for a designation, (b) the charging of a fee for applying for a designation, including— (i) the amount of the fee payable, and 30 (ii) the circumstances in which the fee is to be waived by Ministers, (c) the process for making a designation (including provision about the factors which Ministers are to take into account when deciding whether to make a designation), (d) the withdrawal of a designation (including provision about the factors 35 which Ministers are to take into account when deciding whether to withdraw a designation), (e) the effect of withdrawal of a designation (including provision for allowances or loans made by virtue of regulations under section 73(f) to continue to be payable following withdrawal of a designation). 40 (f) the process for applying for particular courses of education to be approved for the payment of allowances or loans by virtue of section 20 Tertiary Education and Training (Funding and Governance) (Scotland) Bill Part 4—Final provisions 73(f) of this Act (including provision about the factors which Ministers are to take into account when deciding whether to approve courses). (5) Regulations under subsection (4) may make different provision for different purposes. 5 (6) In this section— “further education” means a programme of learning which falls within section 6 of the Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 1992, “higher education” has the meaning given by section 38 of that Act.”. 19 Directions relating to student support 10 (1) The Education (Scotland) Act 1980 is modified as follows. 1 (2) In section 73ZA (administration of certain sums)— (a) in subsection (3), for the words from “persons—” to the end substitute “persons undertaking, or who have undertaken, courses of education provided by— (a) a post-16 education body, 15 (b) a body designated by the Scottish Ministers under section 74A, or (c) an educational institution (or institutions) in the United Kingdom but outside Scotland, which is (or are) maintained or assisted by recurrent grants out of public funds.”, (b) in subsection (4), for “(3)” substitute “(3)(a)”. 20 20 Transfer or delegation of functions relating to student support (1) The Education (Scotland) Act 1980 is modified as follows. (2) In section 73A (transfer or delegation of functions relating to student support)— (a) in subsection (1), for “him by virtue of regulations made under section 73(f) of this Act” substitute “him— 25 (a) by virtue of regulations made under section 73(f) or 74A(4) of this Act, or (b) under section 74A(1) of this Act,”, (b) in subsection (3), for “him” to the end substitute “him— (a) by virtue of regulations made under section 73(a), (c) or (f) or 74A(4) 30 of this Act, or (b) under section 74A(1) of this Act.”.
Last updated:
3 March 2026
Letter from CabSecCAE UKSI The Green Gas Support Scheme Amendment Regulations 2026 EU Exit Legislati
. • DESNZ had suggested 13 April for laying in UK Parliament but this timeline has now been pushed back.
Official Report
Meeting date:
23 March 2021
Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee 23 March 2021
The Carer’s Allowance (Coronavirus) (Breaks in Care) (Scotland) Regulations 2020 (SSI 2020/117) relaxed the eligibility criteria for carers allowance to take account of the effects of coronavirus.
Last updated:
17 April 2024
ScotlandsCommissonerLandscape_SPICeSummaryOfEvidence
What other accountability models should be considered?
Committee reports
Date published:
24 January 2025
Subordinate legislation considered by the Rural Affairs and Islands Committee on 22 January 2025
Officials also stated that new methodology is intended to take account of the reduction in size of salmon and other changes.
