Displaying 32 calls for views
Status: Open
The Health, Social Care and Sport Committee is undertaking an inquiry into Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) pathways and support. The inquiry seeks to: Understand why waiting times for diagnosi...
Closes: 18 August 2025
Status: Open
The Health, Social Care and Sport Committee is carrying out an inquiry into Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) pathways and support. The inquiry aims to: understand why waiting times for diag...
Closes: 18 August 2025
Status: Open
Tha a Chomataidh Chisean Dthchail is Eileanan a coimhead air Bile na Croitearachd agus Cirt an Fhearainn agus tha iad airson do bheachdan a chluinntinn. D th' ann am Bile na Croitearachd agus Cirt an Fhearainn? Tha am Bile ann an d phirt Tha Pirt ...
Closes: 05 September 2025
Status: Open
The Finance and Public Administration Committee is seeking views on the Building Safety Levy (Scotland) Bill. About the Bill The Bill introduces a new tax, called the Scottish Building Safety Levy, to be charged on the construction of residential p...
Closes: 15 August 2025
Status: Open
The Children (Care, Care Experience and Services Planning) (Scotland) Bill is a draft law which is being considered by the Education, Children and Young People Committee at the Scottish Parliament. The Committee wants to understand what individuals ...
Closes: 15 August 2025
Status: Open
The Education, Children and Young People Committee is seeking views on the Children (Care, Care Experience and Services Planning) (Scotland) Bill. Those views will inform the Committees scrutiny. The call for views and analysis: aim to help the ...
Closes: 15 August 2025
Status: Open
About the Bill The Bill as introduced changes the services and support provided to people in the children's care system, or who have ever had experience of that system. Those changes include: giving people who left the care system before their ...
Closes: 01 September 2025
Status: Open
The Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee is seeking views on the Children (Withdrawal from Religious Education and Amendment of UNCRC Incompatibility Duty (Scotland) Bill. Your views will inform the Committee's scrutiny. About this ...
Closes: 01 September 2025
Status: Open
About the Bill Under the Education (Scotland) Act 1980 parents can withdraw a child from religious education and religious observance in school. Religious education can also be known as religious and moral education. Part 1 of the Bill would requir...
Closes: 01 September 2025
Status: Open
The Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee is seeking views on a Bill which will establish a Commissioner for Older People in Scotland. Those views will inform the Committees scrutiny. About this call for views The Commissioner for O...
Closes: 12 September 2025
Status: Open
About the Bill The Commissioner for Older People will promote and safeguard the rights and interests of older people in Scotland. The Bill defines older people as those who are aged 60 years old and over. The Commissioner will have various roles, ...
Closes: 12 September 2025
Status: Open
The Criminal Justice Committee is seeking views on its pre-budget scrutiny ahead of the Scottish Governments 2026-27 budget. Those views will inform the Committees scrutiny. About this call for views As part of its pre-budget scrutiny of the 2026-...
Closes: 09 September 2025
Status: Open
The Rural Affairs and Islands Committee is looking at the Crofting and Scottish Land Court Bill and wants to hear your views. What is the Crofting and Scottish Land Court Bill? The Bill is in two parts Part 1 makes a number of specific changes to ...
Closes: 05 September 2025
Status: Open
About the Bill The Bill is in two main parts. Part 1 deals with crofting. This part of the Bill makes various changes to the law on crofting. It will amend the Crofters (Scotland) Act 1993 and the Crofting Reform (Scotland) Act 2010. It introduces...
Closes: 05 September 2025
Status: Open
The Bill makes destroying, damaging or desecrating a war memorial a specific statutory offence. It proposes that the penalties for this offence would be 10 years in prison and/or an unlimited fine. The Bill defines desecrating a war memorial in a way...
Closes: 11 August 2025
Status: Open
The draft Climate Change Plan (CCP) is a strategy document which outlines how the Scottish Government intends to meet emissions reduction targets across all portfolio areas and sectors of the economy. The Climate Change Plan (CCP) is a statutory do...
Closes: 19 September 2025
Status: Open
The Scottish Parliaments Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee is seeking your views on the Ecocide (Scotland) Bill. Those views will inform the Committees scrutiny. The call for views and analysis: aim to help the Committee understand the r...
Closes: 09 September 2025
Status: Open
About the Bill Ecocide is defined in the Bill as causing severe environmental harm in such a way that is either reckless or intentional. For this Bill, Severe, means environmental harm that has serious adverse effects, and is either widespread or lo...
Closes: 09 September 2025
Status: Open
The Social Justice and Social Security Committee is seeking views on future social security spending in Scotland. Those views will inform the Committees scrutiny. The Committee will base any assessment of public opinion on published data from opinio...
Closes: 17 August 2025
Status: Open
The Scottish Parliaments Health, Social Care and Sport Committee and Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee plan to undertake scrutiny of the Proposed National Good Food Nation Plan in September 2025. The Proposed National Plan was laid i...
Closes: 15 August 2025
Status: Open
About the Bill The Bill will make it illegal for someone who owns, or is responsible for, a greyhound or a racetrack, to race, or allow the racing of, a greyhound on an oval racetrack in Scotland. Most tracks used for greyhound racing are oval in s...
Closes: 11 August 2025
Status: Open
The issue of drugs and substance use in Scottish prisons is multifaceted, encompassing both the supply of illegal substances and the support available for those struggling with the effects of usage. The Scottish Prison Service (SPS) acknowledges this...
Closes: 22 August 2025
Status: Open
The Health, Social Care and Sport Committee is seeking views as part of its pre-budget scrutiny 2026-27. Its scrutiny this year is focused on the mental health budget. The Committee would like to explore current levels of spending on mental health s...
Closes: 15 August 2025
Status: Open
The Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee is seeking views on funding for culture to support its 2026-27 pre-budget scrutiny. The Committee agreed to take a cumulative approach to budget scrutiny over Session 6, focusing primar...
Closes: 15 August 2025
Status: Open
Pam Gosal MSP is proposing a new law to help prevent domestic abuse in Scotland. The Criminal Justice Committee is seeking views on the proposed new law called the Prevention of Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Bill. Those views will inform the Committees...
Closes: 15 September 2025
Status: Open
The Criminal Justice Committee is seeking views on a proposal by Ash Regan MSP for a new law about prostitution in Scotland. Those views will inform the Committees scrutiny. About this call for views The proposed new law is the Prostitution (Offe...
Closes: 05 September 2025
Status: Open
About the Bill The Bill creates a new offence of paying for sexual acts. The Bill also repeals the existing offence under section 46 of the Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982 of soliciting and importuning by prostitutes. People who have been conv...
Closes: 05 September 2025
Status: Open
Rannsachadh air slighean agus taic ADHD agus ASD Tha Comataidh na Slinte, Cram Sisealta agus Sprs a danamh rannsachadh air slighean agus taic Eas-rdugh Easbhaidh Aire agus An-fhois (ADHD) agus Eas-rdugh Speactram tasaim (ASD). Tha an rannsachadh ag...
Closes: 18 August 2025
Status: Open
The Scottish Fiscal Commissions Fiscal Sustainability Report April 2025 states that: The Scottish Government will face significant challenges funding devolved public services in the future, particularly over the next twenty-five years because the p...
Closes: 11 August 2025
Status: Open
The Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee has launched an inquiry on the transparency of intergovernmental activity and its implications for parliamentary scrutiny and Ministerial accountability. About this call for views The...
Closes: 29 August 2025
Status: Open
The Social Justice and Social Security Committee is seeking views on a Bill which will promote consideration by public bodies of sustainable development and the wellbeing of future generations. Responses to this call for views will help to inform th...
Closes: 24 August 2025
Status: Open
The Bill sets out that public bodies must take account of the need to promote wellbeing and sustainable development in their work. It sets out the definitions of sustainable development and wellbeing for this purpose. The Bill would also establish a...
Closes: 25 August 2025