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26 March 2025
Supplementary written submission from the Standards Commission for Scotland
If the SCS then finds, at a Hearing, that a breach of the relevant code has occurred, it will impose a sanction.
Last updated:
12 February 2026
Submission from South Lanarkshire Council
Question 4 – Do you think the duty to review decisions to suspend on receipt of a valid request is clear and appropriate?
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
23 April 2025
S6W-36669
To ask the Scottish Government how many people currently in receipt of Adult Disability Payment have been granted an indefinite award.
Last updated:
1 July 2022
PE1938_B
That particular council did not understand that they required vet codes to access owner details from that code to notify owners.
Last updated:
11 June 2024
Social Security (Scotland) Bill As Introduced
Social Security (Scotland) Bill 17 Part 3—Supplementing assistance under other enactments (3) The maximum penalty that may be provided for in regulations under subsection (1) is, on summary conviction, a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale. 44 Code of practice on investigations (1) The Scottish Ministers must publish a code of practice on investigations carried out by 5 virtue of section 43. (2) The Scottish Ministers— (a) must keep the code of practice under review, (b) may from time to time revise the code of practice. (3) Before publishing the code of practice, the Scottish Ministers must consult publicly on a 10 draft of the code. (4) The Scottish Ministers must, as soon as practicable after publication, lay before the Scottish Parliament a copy of the code of practice. (5) A court or tribunal in civil or criminal proceedings must take the code of practice into account when determining any question to which the code is relevant. 15 (6) Breach of the code of practice does not of itself give rise to grounds for any legal claim whatsoever. (7) Subsections (2) to (6) apply in relation to a revised code of practice as they apply in relation to the first published code of practice.
Last updated:
14 May 2024
SPBill48S062024
SP Bill 48 Session 6 (2024) 2 Right to Addiction Recovery (Scotland) Bill 2 Procedure for determining treatment (1) In making a treatment determination, a relevant health professional must ensure that— (a) they explain to the patient each of the treatment options listed in section 1(5) and the suitability of each to the patient’s needs, 5 (b) the patient is allowed and encouraged to participate as fully as possible in the treatment determination including by being able to give feedback, provide comments and raise concerns, (c) the patient is provided with such information and support as is necessary to enable them to participate in accordance with paragraph (b) and in relation to any related 10 processes, 1 (d) the treatment determination is made following a meeting in person between the relevant health professional and the patient, (e) the treatment determination takes into account the patient’s needs, and (f) the treatment determination is made with regard to the importance of providing 15 the optimum benefit to the patient’s health and wellbeing. (2) The patient may request one or more of the treatments listed in section 1(5) and the relevant health professional must consider the appropriateness of any such treatment requested by the patient in making the treatment determination. (3) Where the relevant health professional determines either that no treatment is appropriate 20 or that a treatment requested by the patient is not appropriate for the patient— (a) the relevant health professional must provide the patient with a written statement of reasons for that decision in a form prescribed by the Scottish Ministers in a code...
Last updated:
1 May 2025
Admin of SIT DGSE to PAC 30 April 2025
Tax code errors includes cases where Scottish taxpayers have paid the wrong amount of tax due to their employer failing to operate a Scottish ‘S’ code.
Last updated:
1 May 2025
Admin of SIT DGSE to PAC 30 April 2025
Tax code errors includes cases where Scottish taxpayers have paid the wrong amount of tax due to their employer failing to operate a Scottish ‘S’ code.
Committee reports
Date published:
11 March 2020
Benefit Take-up - ICT and data sharing
Carer’s allowance supplement is already automated – everyone in receipt of carer’s allowance gets the supplement.
Last updated:
3 June 2025
SPBill72S062025
Codes of practice 15 Proactive publication duty and publication code After section 60 (code of practice as to functions under this Act) of the FOI Act insert— 15 “60A Proactive publication duty (1) A Scottish public authority must take reasonable steps to— (a) organise and keep up to date the information, relevant to its functions, which it holds, and (b) make that information available to the public in an accessible form and 20 manner, (the “proactive publication duty”). (2) In complying with the proactive publication duty, a Scottish public authority must— (a) comply with any code of practice issued by the Commissioner under 25 section 60B, and (b) have due regard to how members of the public would be likely to access the information that the authority holds. 60B Code of practice on publication (1) The Commissioner must prepare a draft code of practice setting out how a 30 Scottish public authority is to comply with the proactive publication duty (the “publication code”). (2) The publication code must in particular specify— (a) information which a Scottish public authority must publish in the public interest, 35 (b) how that information should be made available and searchable, and (c) how long that information should be available for. 6 Freedom of Information Reform (Scotland) Bill (3) The Commissioner may not issue the publication code unless— (a) the Commissioner has consulted— (i) the Keeper of the Records of Scotland, (ii) any Scottish public authority listed in schedule 1 or such persons 5 as appear to the Commissioner to represent those authorities, (iii) any person designated by means of an order under section 5, (iv) the Scottish Ministers, and (v) such other persons as appear to the Commissioner to be relevant, and 10 (b) a draft of the publication code has been laid before and approved by 1 resolution of the Parliament. (4) A Scottish public authority must comply with the publication code. (5) The Commissioner must lay a draft publication code before the Parliament within 12 months of this section coming into force. 15 (6) The Commissioner may from time to time publish a revised publication code, and references in this Act to a publication code include references to a revised publication code.”. 16 Freedom of information officer After section 61 (code of practice as to the keeping, management and destruction of 20 records) of the FOI Act insert— “P ART 6A F REEDOM OF INFORMATION OFFICERS 61A Designation of a freedom of information officer (1) A Scottish public authority must designate a freedom of information officer. 25 (2) When designating a freedom of information officer, the authority must have regard to the professional qualities of the proposed officer, in particular— (a) the proposed officer’s expert knowledge of freedom of information law and practice, and (b) the ability of the proposed officer to perform the tasks mentioned in 30 section 61C. (3) The authority must provide the officer’s name and correspondence address to the Commissioner. 61B Position of freedom of information officer (1) A Scottish public authority must ensure that the freedom of information officer 35 is involved, properly and in a timely manner, in all matters which relate to access to information. (2) The matters referred to in subsection (1) include, but are not limited to, the proactive disclosure of information and the disclosure of information on request under this Act. 7 Freedom of Information Reform (Scotland) Bill (3) The authority must provide the freedom of information officer with the necessary resources to enable the freedom of information officer to— (a) perform the tasks mentioned in section 61C, and (b) maintain their expert knowledge of freedom of information law and 5 practices. (4) The authority— (a) must ensure that the freedom of information officer does not receive any instructions which conflict with their duties and responsibilities mentioned in section 61C, 10 (b) may allow the freedom of information officer to perform a task or fulfil 1 a duty other than those mentioned in 61C, but must ensure that such tasks or duties do not conflict with their duties and responsibilities under section 61C, (c) must not dismiss or penalise the freedom of information officer for 15 performing the tasks mentioned in section 61C. (5) The freedom of information officer, in the performance of this role, must report to the highest management level of the authority. 61C Tasks of freedom of information officer (1) The freedom of information officer must— 20 (a) inform and advise any officer, employee or agent of the authority on their obligations under this Act, (b) provide advice to the authority on its compliance with— (i) its duties under this Act, (ii) any code of practice issued under section 60, 60B or 61 of this 25 Act, and (iii) any policy adopted by the authority in relation to the matters specified in sub-paragraphs (i) or (ii), (c) report to a senior level within the authority on the authority’s compliance with the matters listed in paragraph (b), and 30 (d) provide such assistance as the Commissioner may reasonably require in the exercise of their functions under this Act. (2) In relation to any policy adopted by the authority as mentioned in subsection (1)(b), the freedom of information officer’s tasks include— (a) assigning responsibilities under those policies, 35 (b) raising the public’s awareness of relevant rights and duties, (c) training staff involved in the authority’s performance of its duties under this Act, and (d) conducting audits required under those policies.”. 8 Freedom of Information Reform (Scotland) Bill Miscellaneous and supplemental 17 Disclosure of information to Scottish Public Services Ombudsman, Information Commissioner or to Audit Scotland (1) In section 63 (disclosure of information to Scottish Public Services Ombudsman or to 5 Information Commissioner), after paragraph (b) insert “or (c) Audit Scotland any information so obtained or furnished if it appears to the Commissioner that the information relates to a matter which is, or could, fall within its powers under the Public Finance and Accountability (Scotland) Act 2000.”. 10 (2) The title of section 63 becomes “Disclosure of information to Scottish Public Services 1 Ombudsman, Information Commissioner or Audit Scotland”. 18 Offence of altering etc. records with intent to prevent disclosure In section 65 (offence of altering etc. records with intent to prevent disclosure) of the FOI Act— 15 (a) after subsection (1) insert— “(1A) A person to whom this subsection applies who, with the intention of preventing the disclosure of information were that information to be requested under section 1, destroys or procures the destruction of a record held by a Scottish public authority, is guilty of an offence.”, 20 (b) in subsection (2), for “Subsection (1) applies” substitute “Subsections (1) and (1A) apply”, (c) in subsection (3), after “subsection (1)” insert “or (1A)”. 19 Time limit for proceedings In section 65A (time limit for proceedings) of the FOI Act— 25 (a) for subsection (2) substitute— “(2) No such proceedings may be commenced more than 3 years after the commencement of a criminal investigation in relation to the offence or alleged offence.”, (b) subsection (3) is repealed. 30 Final provisions 20 Ancillary provision (1) The Scottish Ministers may by regulations make any incidental, supplementary, consequential, transitional, transitory or saving provision they consider appropriate for the purposes of, in connection with or for giving full effect to this Act. 35 (2) Regulations under this section may make different provision for different purposes. (3) Regulations under this section are subject to the negative procedure. 21 Interpretation In this Act, “the FOI Act” means the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002. 9 Freedom of Information Reform (Scotland) Bill 22 Commencement (1) This section and sections 1 to 7, 8(c), 9 to 11, 13, 14, 17 to 20, 21, 23 come into force on the day after Royal Assent. (2) The remaining provisions of this Act come into force— 5 (a) at the end of a period of 12 months beginning with the day of Royal Assent, or (b) on such earlier day as the Scottish Ministers may by regulations appoint. (3) Regulations under this section may— (a) include transitional, transitory or saving provision, (b) make different provision for different purposes. 10 23 Short title 1 The short title of this Act is the Freedom of Information Reform (Scotland) Act 2025.
