On 29th January 2024, the UK government published a consultation proposing the introduction of fees in the Employment Tribunals and the Employment Appeal Tribunal.
April 2024
On 9th January 2024, the Scottish government published a consultation containing detailed proposals for legislation to end conversion practices in Scotland.
April 2024
On 9th August 2021, the Scottish government published a consultation containing detailed proposals to improve the delivery of social care in Scotland.
April 2024
On 29 September 2023 the Scottish Government published a landlord and tenant engagement questionnaire asking for views on the introduction long-term rent controls in Scotland.
October 2023
The Scottish Employment Injuries Advisory Council Bill was introduced to Parliament by Mark Griffin MSP on 8 June 2023. If passed, the private members bill would create the Scottish Employment Injuries Advisory Council (SEIAC) to advise Scottish Ministers on Employment Injuries Assistance (EIA).
September 2023
The Proposed Land Ownership and Public Interest (Scotland) Bill was introduced to Parliament by Mercedes Villalba MSP on 6 June 2023. If passed, the private members bill would introduce a presumed limit of 500 hectares on individual sales or transfers of land and on the aggregate amount of land any person can own, and make land transfers over the 500-hectare limit subject to a public interest test.
September 2023
On 12 July 2023, the Scottish Government and COSLA published a consultation seeking views on potential changes to the council tax system that could see those in the highest value properties asked to pay more.
September 2023
On 24 June the Scottish Parliament’s Finance and Public Administration Committee issued a call for views on the sustainability of Scotland's finances as the basis of its pre-budget scrutiny.
August 2023
On 17 April 2023, the Scottish Government and COSLA published a consultation on changes to council tax on second and empty homes/non-domestic rates, which would allow council tax to be increased for second and empty homes and for changes to the regulation of short-term lets.
July 2023
On 17 March 2023, the Scottish Government published a consultation on the draft legislative clauses to introduce a proposed relief from Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (LBTT) for Green Freeports. In January 2023, Inverness and Cromarty Firth Green Freeport and Forth Green Freeport were jointly selected by the Scottish and UK governments to become Scotland’s first Green Freeports.
May 2023
In January 2023, the Scottish Government published a consultation seeking views on what is required to accelerate and deepen Community Wealth Building in Scotland, including what should be in a potential Community Wealth Building Bill.
May 2023
In January 2023, the Scottish Government published its draft Energy Strategy and Just Transition Plan which aims to ‘deliver an energy system that meets the challenge of becoming a net zero nation by 2045, supplies safe and secure energy for all, generates economic opportunities, and builds a just transition’.
May 2023
In May 2022, the Scottish Government’s Resource Spending Review set out its high-level spending plans up until 2026-27, including plans to keep pay bill costs at 2022-23 levels by ‘returning the public sector workforce broadly to pre-Covid-19 levels’. For these reasons, in March 2023, the Finance Committee launched an inquiry to look in more detail at the Scottish Government’s public service reform programme, ahead of the Scottish Budget.
April 2023
The Freedom of Information Reform (Scotland) Bill was introduced to Parliament by Katy Clark MSP on 1 November 2022. If passed, it would reform Freedom of Information legislation in Scotland by extending coverage to all bodies delivering public services, services of a public nature and publicly funded services and create a role of Freedom of Information officer.
April 2023
The Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee launched its inquiry into Scotland’s Electricity Infrastructure in March 2023. The purpose of the inquiry is to: scrutinise what electricity infrastructure will be needed to realise the ambitions set out in the Scottish Government's draft Energy Strategy and Just Transition Plan.
April 2023
