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29 September 2025
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S6W-40848 Monica Lennon: To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to develop best scientific practice in marine and coastal restoration activity.
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21 May 2025
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Motions and amendments which have attracted additional support S6M-17589 Ben Macpherson: Congratulating Rohan Seilman of A.R.Ts Afternoon on Scottish Charity Awards Nomination (lodged on 19 May 2025) New Support: Paul Sweeney* Wednesday 21 May 2025 23 Today's Business Future Business Motions & Questions Legislation Other Gnothaichean an-diugh Gnothaichean ri teachd Gluasadan agus Ceistean Reachdas Eile Motions | Gluasadan S6M-17572 Douglas Lumsden: Port of Aberdeen Celebrates Strong Financial Performance (lodged on 19 May 2025) New Support: Paul Sweeney* S6M-17571 Gillian Mackay: Recognising Unpaid Carers (lodged on 19 May 2025) New Support: Paul Sweeney* S6M-17570 Alexander Burnett: Burnett Arms Receives Highly Recommended Accolade in the Best...
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19 May 2025
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*S6M-17570 Alexander Burnett: Burnett Arms Receives Highly Recommended Accolade in the Best Pub Category at The Entertainment and Hospitality Awards.
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15 May 2025
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S6W-37496 Monica Lennon: To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to revise the salmon farming enforcement framework to include financial sanctions for fish escapes or significant mortality events, in line with international best practice. S6W-37497 Monica Lennon: To ask the Scottish Government what measures it is taking to strengthen the regulatory ...
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13 May 2025
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*S6M-17492 Miles Briggs: Volunteer Edinburgh at 25—That the Parliament congratulates Volunteer Edinburgh on its 25th anniversary; notes that, as part of its celebrations to mark the occasion, The Rt Hon Lord Provost of Edinburgh, Robert Aldridge, is hosting a civic reception in the City Chambers on the 15 May 2025; understands that, in celebrating the 25-year milestone at the civic reception, it is bringing together all the people who have helped shape Volunteer Edinburgh, including past employees, volunteers and trustees; acknowledges that Volunteer Edinburgh’s purpose and mission is to build strong social connections, reduce inequalities and support vibrant communities through volunteers and volunteering activities, and wishes the organisation all the very best...
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26 March 2025
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Supported by: Kenneth Gibson*, David Torrance*, Karen Adam*, Jeremy Balfour*, Annabelle Ewing*, Stuart McMillan*, Bill Kidd*, Rona Mackay*, Colin Beattie*, Miles Briggs*, Audrey Nicoll*, Emma Harper* Kevin Stewart: Congratulations to Professor Gerald Lip—That the Parliament *S6M-16871 congratulates Professor Gerald Lip on his appointment to the post of Lead for Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Practice at the University of Aberdeen; understands that this post, which will involve teaching medical students and clinicians the basic principles of AI and how it can be implemented to clinical practice, is the first example of a medical school in Scotland appointing a head of AI in medicine; further understands that Professor Lip is a widely recognised expert in the field of AI in healthcare, with experience of many large-scale clinical trials, including the GEMINI project, where AI was used to detect an additional 12% more cancers than in routine practice; believes that this move highlights the important role that AI is playing in modern medicine and how it will help to equip future doctors with the knowledge and skills required to harness AI technologies in providing more accurate diagnoses, personalised treatments and proactive patient care; wishes Professor Lip all the very best...
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11 March 2025
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Pensioner Poverty: digital exclusion: The Committee will take evidence from— Louise Coupland, Digital Health and Social Care Manager, the ALLIANCE; Jillian Matthew, Senior Manager, Performance Audit and Best Value, Audit Scotland; Kyle Scott, Policy Manager, Stronger Communities and Public Affairs, Citizens Advice Scotland; Miriam Craven, Chief Operating Of...
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19 February 2025
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*S6M-16498 Emma Roddick: Shetland Youth Music Festival Secures Important Funding— That the Parliament celebrates the news that the Shetland Youth Music Festival has secured a major £5,000 funding award from Shetland Charitable Trust; understands that the grant provides the funding needed to run 2025’s programme of events, which will take place in Lerwick's Mareel, from 17 to 20 March; appreciates that the festival is self-funded through sponsorship and donations and that it enjoyed a hugely successful event in 2024, with over 600 young musicians involved; further appreciates that this year's festival is open to all young people of secondary school age in full-time education in Shetland, with the syllabus and entry forms available online, and wishes all of the organisers all the best...
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26 November 2024
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Supported by: Stephen Kerr* *S6M-15514 Michael Marra: Aberdeenshire's Eilidh Craib's Kickboxing Success—That the Parliament congratulates Aberdeenshire’s Eilidh Craib on her recent successes in kickboxing; understands that Eilidh, from Strichen, trains at Fraserburgh Fitness Centre and is already a Scottish, British and Celtic kickboxing champion; notes that Eilidh won a European kickboxing champion title in April 2024; recognises Eilidh’s achievement in representing Scotland at the ICO World Combat Martial Arts Championships in Frankfurt in August 2024, winning all five of her fights and finishing in joint sixth place for gold medals won; applauds Eilidh for balancing her kickboxing success with her studies at the University of Aberdeen, and sends its best...
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7 February 2024
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Safeguards for children involved in criminal proceedings 11 Custody of children before commencement of proceedings 30 (1) The Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2016 (“the 2016 Act”) is amended as follows. (2) In section 22 (under 18s to be kept in place of safety prior to court), in subsection (1), for paragraph (b) substitute— “(b) a constable believes the person is under 18 years of age.”. 12 Children (Care and Justice) (Scotland) Bill Part 2—Criminal justice and procedure (3) In section 23 (notice to parent that under 18 to be brought before court)— (a) in subsection (1), for “16 years of age or over and subject to a supervision order or under 16” substitute “under 18”, (b) in subsection (4), the definition of “supervision order” is repealed. 5 (4) In section 24 (notice to local authority that under 18 to be brought before court)— (a) in subsection (1), in paragraph (a), for “either subsection (2) or (3)” substitute “subsection (2)”, (b) for subsection (2) substitute— “(2) This subsection applies to a person who is under 18 years of age.”, 10 (c) subsection (3) is repealed. 1 (5) In section 33 (consent to interview without solicitor)— (a) in subsection (1), for “Subsections (2) and (3) apply” substitute “Subsection (2) applies”, (b) in subsection (2)— 15 (i) in paragraph (a), for “16” substitute “18”, (ii) paragraph (b) is repealed, (iii) in paragraph (c), for “16” substitute “18”, (c) subsections (3), (4) and (5) are repealed. (6) In section 38 (right to have intimation sent to other person), in subsection (7)— 20 (a) the words from “to ascertain” to the end become paragraph (a), (b) after that paragraph insert “, or (b) for a local authority to give advice by virtue of section 41(9).”. (7) In section 41 (social work involvement in relation to under 18s)— (a) in subsection (1)— 25 (i) in paragraph (a), for “the person may be subject to a supervision order” substitute “person to be under 18 years of age”, (ii) paragraph (b) and “or” immediately preceding it are repealed, (b) after that subsection insert— “(1A) Intimation of the following facts must also be sent to a local authority— 30 (a) where the person in custody declines to exercise the right to have intimation sent under section 38, that fact, (b) where the person in custody requests under section 39(3)(b) that the person to whom intimation is to be sent under section 38 is not asked to attend at the place where the person in custody is being held, that 35 fact, (c) where the person in custody requests under section 39(6)(b) that no further attempt to send intimation under section 38 is made, that fact, 13 Children (Care and Justice) (Scotland) Bill Part 2—Criminal justice and procedure (d) where the person to whom intimation is sent under section 38— (i) does not access the person in custody by virtue of the person in custody not wishing that person to have access by virtue of section 40(2), or 5 (ii) is refused access to the person in custody or has such access restricted by virtue of section 40(4), that fact.”, (c) in subsection (2)— (i) in the opening words, after “subsection (1)” insert “or (1A)”, 10 (ii) paragraph (a) is repealed, 1 (iii) in paragraph (b)— (A) sub-paragraph (i) and “and” following it are repealed, (B) in sub-paragraph (ii), “(having regard to the effect of subsection (4)(a))” is repealed, 15 (d) in subsection (4), paragraph (a) and “and” following it are repealed, (e) subsections (7) and (8) are repealed, (f) in subsection (9), for “The local authority” substitute “A local authority sent intimation under subsection (1) or (1A)”, (g) subsection (10) is repealed. 20 report of suspected offences involving children 12 Restriction on (1) The 2016 Act is amended as follows. (2) After section 106 insert— “C HAPTER 2A R EPORT OF SUSPECTED OFFENCES INVOLVING CHILDREN 25 106A Restriction on report of suspected offences (1) Subject to subsection (4) and section 106B, no publication is to include information relating to a person if— (a) that information is likely to lead to the identification of the person as being a person by whom an offence is suspected to have been committed, 30 and (b) the person was aged under 18 at the date of commission of the suspected offence. (2) Subject to subsections (3A) and (4) and section 106BA, no publication is to include information relating to a person if— 35 (a) that information is likely to lead to the identification of the person as being a person— (i) against or in respect of whom an offence is suspected to have been committed, or 14 Children (Care and Justice) (Scotland) Bill Part 2—Criminal justice and procedure (ii) who is suspected to have been a witness in relation to an offence, and (b) the person was aged under 18 at the date of commission of the suspected offence. 5 (3) For the purposes of subsections (1) and (2), information relating to a person includes in particular— (a) the person’s name, (b) the person’s address, (c) the identity of any school or other educational establishment attended 10 by the person, 1 (ca) the identity of any place at which the person works, (d) any still or moving picture of the person. (3A) The restriction imposed by subsection (2) does not prevent a person to whom the information relates from publishing information which is likely to lead to 15 their own identification as being a person— (a) against or in respect of whom an offence is suspected to have been committed, or (b) who is suspected to have been a witness in relation to an offence. (4) The restrictions imposed by subsections (1) and (2) cease to apply once there 20 are proceedings in a court in respect of the offence (but see section 47 of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 which places restrictions on the report of proceedings involving children). (6) In this section and in sections 106B to 106BB— “offence” includes any offence, regardless of whether it is committed, 25 or suspected to have been committed, before or after this section comes into force, “publication” includes any speech, writing, relevant programme or other communication in whatever form, which is addressed or accessible to the public at large or any section of the public (whether on registration, 30 payment, subscription or otherwise), “relevant programme” means a programme included in a programme service, within the meaning of the Broadcasting Act 1990. 106B Power to dispense with restriction: suspects (1) A sheriff may by order dispense with the restriction imposed by section 35 106A(1) in relation to a person if the sheriff is satisfied that it is in the interests of justice to do so. (2) A sheriff may make an order under subsection (1) on the application of— (a) a constable, (b) a prosecutor, 40 (c) the person to whom the relevant information relates, or (d) a media representative. 15 Children (Care and Justice) (Scotland) Bill Part 2—Criminal justice and procedure (3) Where such an application is made in writing (rather than orally) it must be made in such form as may be prescribed by act of adjournal (or as nearly as may be in such form). (4) Before deciding whether to make an order under subsection (1), the sheriff 5 must— (za) where the person to whom the relevant information relates is aged under 18, regard the best...
