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Date answered:
20 June 2025
S6W-38899
It lays the foundation for systemic change and is a vital step toward building a fairer, more inclusive Scotland for everyone.Link to the plan: https://www.gov.scot/isbn/9781836915508 S6W-38899
Last updated:
28 February 2024
Climate change governance arrangements 28 February 2024
I would be grateful if you could update the Committee in advance of the meeting as to what the proposed laying date for the draft now is. It would also be helpful if you were able to explain the reasons for laying continuing to be delayed.
Last updated:
10 June 2024
SPBill31BS052019
Health and Care (Staffing) (Scotland) Bill 9 Part 2—Staffing in the NHS (3) As soon as reasonably practicable after the end of each financial year, the Scottish Ministers must lay before the Parliament a report setting out— (a) how they have complied with subsection (1), and (b) the extent to which Ministers’ compliance with subsection (1) enabled 5 Health Boards, relevant Special Health Boards and the Agency to comply with the duty imposed by section 12IA. 12IAD Duty to ensure adequate time given to clinical leaders In complying with the duty imposed by section 12IA, every Health Board and the Agency must ensure that all individuals with lead clinical professional 10 responsibility for a team of staff receive sufficient time and resources to discharge that responsibility and their other professional duties, including, in particular, time— (a) to supervise the meeting of the clinical needs of the patients in their care, (b) to manage, and support the development of, the staff for whom they are 15 responsible, and (c) to lead the delivery of safe, high-quality and person-centred health care. 12IAE Duty to ensure appropriate staffing: training of staff In complying with the duty imposed by section 12IA, every Health Board and the Agency must ensure that its employees receive— 20 (a) such training as it considers appropriate and relevant for the purposes set out in section 12IA(1)(a) and (b), and (b) such time and resources as it considers adequate to undertake such training. 12IB Duty to follow common staffing method 25 (1) In relation to health care of a type mentioned in section 12IC, a Health Board or the Agency (as the case may be) must, no less often than at the frequency specified in regulations by the Scottish Ministers, use the common staffing method set out in subsection (2). (2) The common staffing method means that a Health Board or the Agency (as the 30 case may be)— (a) uses the staffing level tool and the professional judgement tool as prescribed in regulations under subsection (3) and takes into account the results from those tools, (b) takes into account, in so far as relevant, any measures for monitoring and 35 improving the quality of health care which are published as standards and outcomes under section 10H(1) by the Scottish Ministers (including any measures developed as part of a national care assurance framework), (c) takes into account— (i) its current staffing levels and any vacancies, 40 (ia) the different skills and levels of experience of its employees, 10 Health and Care (Staffing) (Scotland) Bill Part 2—Staffing in the NHS (ib) the role and professional duties, in particular, of any individual with lead clinical professional responsibility for the particular type of health care, (ic) the effect that decisions about staffing and the use of resources 5 taken for the particular type of health care may have on the provision of other types of health care including, in particular, those to which this section does not apply, (ii) the local context in which it provides health care, (iia) patient needs, 10 (iib) appropriate clinical advice, (iii) any assessment by HIS, and any relevant assessment by any other person, of the quality of health care which it provides, (iiia) experience gained from using the real-time assessment arrangements under section 12IAA(1) and the risk escalation 15 processes under sections 12IAB and 12IABA, (iv) comments by patients, and by individuals who have a personal interest in their health care (for example family members and carers within the meaning of section 1 of the Carers (Scotland) Act 2016), which relate to the duty imposed by section 12IA, and 20 (v) comments by its employees which relate to the duty imposed by section 12IA, and (ca) identifies and takes all reasonable steps to mitigate any risks, and (d) having followed the steps described in paragraphs (a) to (ca), decides what changes (if any) are needed as a result to its staffing establishment, 25 and to the way in which it provides health care. (3) The Scottish Ministers may by regulations prescribe— (a) a “staffing level tool” designed to provide quantitative information relating to workload, based on patient needs, in order to assist in determining the appropriate staffing levels for a particular kind of health 30 care provision, and (b) a “professional judgement tool” designed to provide quantitative information relating to professional judgement in order to assist in determining the appropriate staffing levels for a particular kind of health care provision. 35 (3A) For the purposes of this section, a reference to a Health Board’s (or, as the case may be) the Agency’s staffing establishment is a reference to the number of employees of a particular kind (or kinds) that the Board (or, as the case may be) the Agency have determined as being appropriate to deliver a type of health care mentioned in section 12IC. 40 (4) The Scottish Ministers may by regulations amend subsection (2) so as to change the description of the common staffing method.
Last updated:
4 June 2020
SPBill53BS052020
Examination and audit: devolved Scottish elections 16 Electoral Commission: five-year plan (1) Schedule 1 of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 (the Electoral Commission) is amended as follows. 30 (2) After paragraph 15 insert— “Five-year plan: devolved Scottish elections 15A(1) At the same time as the Commission submit to the Speaker’s Committee a plan under paragraph 15(1), the Commission must also submit the plan to the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body (in this paragraph, the “SPCB”). 35 (2) The SPCB— (a) must examine each plan submitted to it in so far as the plan relates to the Commission’s devolved Scottish functions, (b) must decide whether it is satisfied that the plan is consistent with the economical, efficient and effective discharge by the Commission of their 40 devolved Scottish functions, and Scottish Elections (Reform) Bill 11 Part 2—Electoral Commission (c) if it is not so satisfied, may recommend such modifications to the plan as it considers appropriate for the purpose of achieving such consistency. (4) The SPCB must, after concluding its examination and making its recommendations (if any) under sub-paragraph (2) in relation to a plan— 5 (a) report to the Speaker’s Committee on its findings and its recommendations (if any), and (b) as soon as reasonably practicable after the plan is laid by the Speaker’s Committee under paragraph 15(4)— (i) lay...
Official Report
Meeting date:
15 March 2022
Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee 15 March 2022
Separately, the draft regulations change the audit completion deadline for local government 2021-22 annual accounts, as requested by Audit Scotland, in order to address the continuing challenges resulting from the delay in auditing the 2019-20 and 2020-21 accounts.
Last updated:
16 December 2025
SPBill58BS062025
SP Bill 58B Session 6 (2025) 2 Dog Theft (Scotland) Bill (5) A person is taken to have shown a fact mentioned in subsection (3) or (4) if— (a) sufficient evidence of the fact is adduced to raise an issue with respect to it, and (b) the contrary is not proved beyond reasonable doubt. (6) A person who commits the offence of dog theft is liable— 5 (a) on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or to a fine not exceeding the prescribed sum (or both), (b) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 5 years or to a fine (or both). (7) In subsection (6), the “prescribed sum” has the meaning given by section 225(8) of the 10 Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995. 1 (8) In this section— (a) references to a person taking a dog include the person— (i) causing or inducing the dog to accompany the person or anyone else, or (ii) causing the dog to be taken, 15 (b) references to a person keeping a dog include the person— (i) causing or inducing the dog to remain with the person or anyone else, or (ii) causing the dog to be kept. 2 Theft of assistance dogs (1) An offence of dog theft is aggravated if a dog which is taken or kept is a helper dog. 20 (2) For the purpose of this section, the term “helper dog” means— (a) an assistance dog, as defined by section 173(1) (interpretation) of the Equality Act 2010, or (b) a dog of a category prescribed by regulations made by the Scottish Ministers. (3) Evidence from a single source is sufficient to prove that a dog is a helper dog. 25 (4) Subsection (5) applies where it is— (a) libelled in an indictment, or specified in a complaint, that an offence is aggravated by a dog which is taken or kept being a helper dog, and (b) proved that the offence is so aggravated. (5) The court must— 30 (a) state on conviction that the offence is aggravated by a dog which is taken or kept being a helper dog, (b) record the conviction in a way that shows that the offence is so aggravated, (c) take the aggravation into account...
Last updated:
5 November 2025
SPBill58AS062025
SP Bill 58A Session 6 (2025) 2 Dog Theft (Scotland) Bill (5) A person is taken to have shown a fact mentioned in subsection (3) or (4) if— (a) sufficient evidence of the fact is adduced to raise an issue with respect to it, and (b) the contrary is not proved beyond reasonable doubt. (6) A person who commits the offence of dog theft is liable— 5 (a) on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or to a fine not exceeding the prescribed sum (or both), (b) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 5 years or to a fine (or both). (7) In subsection (6), the “prescribed sum” has the meaning given by section 225(8) of the 10 Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995. 1 (8) In this section— (a) references to a person taking a dog include the person— (i) causing or inducing the dog to accompany the person or anyone else, or (ii) causing the dog to be taken, 15 (b) references to a person keeping a dog include the person— (i) causing or inducing the dog to remain with the person or anyone else, or (ii) causing the dog to be kept. 2 Theft of assistance dogs (1) An offence of dog theft is aggravated if a dog which is taken or kept is a helper dog. 20 (2) For the purpose of this section, the term “helper dog” means— (a) an assistance dog, as defined by section 173(1) (interpretation) of the Equality Act 2010, and (b) a dog of a category prescribed by regulations made by the Scottish Ministers. (3) Evidence from a single source is sufficient to prove that a dog is a helper dog. 25 (4) Subsection (5) applies where it is— (a) libelled in an indictment, or specified in a complaint, that an offence is aggravated by a dog which is taken or kept being a helper dog, and (b) proved that the offence is so aggravated. (5) The court must— 30 (a) state on conviction that the offence is aggravated by a dog which is taken or kept being a helper dog, (b) record the conviction in a way that shows that the offence is so aggravated, (c) take the aggravation into account...
Last updated:
28 April 2025
CabSecNZEEnvironmental Authorisations Scotland Amendment Regulations 2025 additional information 22
Scottish Government follow standard legislative routes for laying of amended Regulations, including liaison with Ministers and Committees.
Last updated:
6 June 2024
IGR_CabSecFLGToConvener_28May24
However, this process allows for the provision of third party advice and means that parties to the dispute need to lay a report before their legislatures outlining why resolution could not be reached.
Last updated:
16 January 2023
RemoteRuralandIslandsHousingActionPlan
The Group has now been convened and my officials will take account of its conclusions in developing proposals for public engagement and consultation.
