The Scottish Parliament examines what the Scottish Government is doing, makes new laws on devolved matters and debates the issues of the day.Latest updates What's on in Parliament Parliament at Christmas The Scottish Parliament will be in recess until 5 January. We wish all of you a happy...
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Visitor figures went through the 100,000 barrier at the new Scottish Parliament building at Holyrood today. The landmark figure puts the Parliament on schedule to reach its projected number of 780,000 visitors in the first year alone. Since opening to the public on 7 September, just over nine...
Nicola Sturgeon has set out her proposals for the coming year at Holyrood, which she says show her government is “focused on delivering for today and investing for tomorrow”. A total of 12 new Bills have been announced in the Scottish Government’s legislative programme for 2018/19: Biometri...
Wendy Alexander to enter House of Lords as new peers named 20 Dec 2024 at 4:05pm Sue Gray and former Scottish Labour figures named Man convicted for threatening MSP after new parliament monitoring scheme intr... 19 Dec 2024 at 4:37pm ...
when the Serbs were carrying out a murderous campaign of ethic cleansing in the later new independent Republic of Kosovo just before the first elections for the first new Scottish Parliament. In my opinion again, it could have cost us seats in that first Parliament. Was that “statesmanlike”...
A study done for the Scottish Council for Development and Industry, a group that bills itself as an independent economic development organization, has recommended new nuclear power plants in Scotland.rnThe Scottish government and Parliament rejected building new nuclear power plants in Scotland following...
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she would campaign in the May 2021 Scottish Parliament election for a mandate to hold a vote on independence “in the early part of the new parliament,” which will run from 2021 to 2025. In a speech to a conference of her Scottish National Party...
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By having Labour in power in coalition in Scotland, we are achieving much faster progress than we ever could have without a Parliament. On jobs, by working together with Labour Ministers in the UK, the Scottish Parliament's new Enterprise Minister, Henry McLeish, is helping deliver the lowes...