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Physical inactivity is acknowledgedas one of the most prevalent risk factors for chronic heart disease (CHD) in Scotland (togetherwith poor diet, smoking and obesity) and inactive people have twice the risk ofCHD than active people.
Overall, this has impacted the Committee's effectiveness, forcing it to be more of a responsive than a strategic, agenda-setting body, in large part focused on getting through government-generated business.
Committee reports
Date published:
17 December 2025
However, these proposals contrast heavily with the findings of the 'Hearings for Children' report, which recommended that instead of meeting with the Reporter, there should be an opportunity for a child/young person and their family "to meet their Chair at a ‘get to know me’ meeting outwith the formal setting of a Hearing."
Committee reports
Date published:
30 September 2025
It was also suggested that understanding is getting worse rather than better.
At the session on 11 March, some witnesses also questioned whether public authorities understand how to apply the terms and aims to “bread and butter issues” like housing and social security.
., the Head of Ferries Unit at Transport Scotland stated—
…the approach that we would adopt now would be to advise ministers when we get the monthly or quarterly reports from CMAL, even if the project is going well, in a very similar vein to the approach that we take to 801 and 802.4Official Report. (2022, June 9).
Committee reports
Date published:
15 February 2023
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SCOTSS told the Committee that “the problem is that something that falls victim to the sunset clause will be replaced by nothing” and “businesses will rightly think, ‘maybe I can get...
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Scotland was one of the cradles of the industrial revolution. [...] our sticky fingers are all over climate change, because right from the get-go we were beneficiaries of it, although arguably the vast majority of the population did not benefit massi...
Also, autistic children and young people are supported through local Getting it Right Pathways and processes, to have needs identified early, and individualised plans in place.
These sessions gathered the views from community organisations on how they felt public authorities should assist with getting people from ethnic minority communities into work and what areas still needed to be improved.
Consultations
During the passage of the Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2014, the Scottish Government committed to a review of the future of civil partnerships; whether to close future civil partnerships in light of the fact that same sex and different sex couples would be able to get married, or to open up civil partnerships to different sex ...