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  • Scotland's Census 2031 - Topics

    The National Records of Scotland (NRS), on behalf of the Registrar General for Scotland, is responsible for conducting Scotland’s census. These statistics are of national strategic importance and bring a wide range of benefits to Scotland. Census statistics provide an accurate picture of Scotland’s population including its size, distribution, and demographics. Our statistics inform policy making, enabling government agencies to make decisions regarding funding for services... More
    Opened today

  • Changes to waste management services

    The Scottish Government is launching the Changes to Waste Management Consultation and the Call for Evidence (CfE) on the potential extension of the upcoming ban on landfilling biodegradable municipal waste. The first of these consultation topics is a review of the rural food waste exemption that permits local authorities not to collect food waste from locations classified as being rural if collections are not economically viable. We want to know if the exemption, which has existed since... More
    Opened 25 March 2025

  • Future of the Scottish Landfill Communities Fund

    The Scottish Landfill Communities Fund (SLCF) is a voluntary tax credit scheme linked to the Scottish Landfill Tax (SLfT). The fund was established to mirror the UK Landfill Tax Communities Fund when SLfT was introduced in 2015 and provides funding for community or environmental projects in recognition of the dis-amenity of landfill activity. The continued reduction in landfilled waste in Scotland means that SLfT revenue is declining. The Scottish Environment Protection Agency... More
    Closed 6 June 2025

  • Private Rented Sector (PRS) Minimum Energy Efficiency Standard (MEES)

    This consultation seeks views on the Scottish Government's proposals to introduce Minimum Energy Efficiency Standard (MEES) regulations in the domestic Private Rented Sector (PRS) using existing powers within in the Energy Act 2011. Improving the energy efficiency of buildings has been a priority for Scottish Ministers for over a decade, with draft Energy Efficiency (Domestic Private Rented Property) (Scotland) Regulations consulted on in 2019 and then laid before Scottish Parliament... More
    Opened 6 June 2025

  • Heat and Energy Efficiency Technical Suitability Assessment (HEETSA) - Scoping Consultation

    The purpose of this Scoping Consultation is to set out the Scottish Government’s initial proposals for the scope of a Heat and Energy Efficiency Technical Suitability Assessment ( HEETSA) and seek stakeholder views on the overall concept of HEETSA and how it relates to other parts of the heat and energy efficiency retrofit landscape. The Scottish Government’s objective in making these initial proposals is to safeguard consumers by developing a technical suitability... More
    Opened 6 June 2025

  • Environmental Standards Scotland Strategy 2026-2031

    Environmental Standard Scotland (ESS) is an independent public body, established by the UK Withdrawal from the European Union (Continuity) (Scotland) Act 2021. ESS monitors compliance with, and the effectiveness of, environmental law in Scotland. Our role is to hold local authorities to account to improve the quality of the environment in Scotland and help achieve the highest environmental standards. This consultation is seeking views and comments on ESS’ draft Strategy... More
    Opened 4 June 2025

  • Potential cruise ship levy (Scotland)

    The Scottish Government is seeking views on giving local authorities in Scotland the power to introduce a cruise ship levy in all, or part, of their area if they choose to do so. We want to hear your views on the benefits and problems a cruise ship levy could bring, the potential impacts (both positive and negative), and practical questions about how any such levy could best work. Throughout this consultation we have used the term ‘cruise ship levy’ to refer to a... More
    Closed 30 May 2025

  • Animal Health Fixed Penalty Notice Scheme

    The Scottish Government is seeking feedback on proposals for the introduction of a Fixed Penalty Notice Scheme (FPN) issued for minor offences under the Animal Health Act 1981. Under the Animal Health Act 1981, Scottish Ministers have the power to make regulations allowing for fixed penalty notices (FPNs) to be used for certain animal health offences. FPNs are a financial penalty that can be offered to someone alleged to have committed an offence and may be used as an alternative to... More
    Closed 30 May 2025

  • Herring in the Firth of Clyde: recommending the total allowable catch for 2025

    This consultation relates to the 2025 Total Allowable Catch (TAC) for herring in the Firth of Clyde The Marine Directorate of the Scottish Government is carrying out this consultation on behalf of the UK Fisheries Administrations to seek views on the level of the 2025 TAC. Read the consultation paper . The consultation paper contains full background information for this consultation. You may find it useful to read or refer to while responding. The consultation questions are... More
    Opened 30 May 2025

  • Draft Updated Sectoral Marine Plan for Offshore Wind Energy

    Sectoral Marine Planning provides a framework for the sustainable development of offshore wind energy in Scotland’s marine environment. The draft updated Sectoral Marine Plan for Offshore Wind Energy (SMP-OWE) sets out an integrated planning framework for both the ScotWind and INTOG leasing rounds alongside consideration of additional capacity for test and demonstration (T&D) projects. It has been informed by the latest scientific evidence and sets out the opportunities as well... More
    Opened 30 May 2025

  • Sentencing and Penal Policy Commission: Call for Evidence

    This Call for Evidence aims to gather written evidence and views to inform the work of the independent Commission on Sentencing and Penal Policy , which has been established to review Scotland’s current approach to sentencing and penal policy. The Commission will make recommendations for improvements t o achieve an effective, rehabilitative justice system, meaning less crime and fewer victims. The Commission is calling for evidence across four themes: Theme 1:... More
    Closed 25 May 2025

  • Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs)

    Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation – commonly referred to as SLAPPs – have been widely recognised as a growing threat to freedom of expression and particularly, but not only, to civil society actors such as journalists, academics, environmental defenders, and authors. SLAPPs are lawsuits or threats of legal action that engage abusive litigation tactics in proceedings which concern public participation on matters of public interest. Abusive litigation... More
    Closed 23 May 2025

  • Climate change duties - draft statutory guidance for public bodies: consultation

    The Scottish Government is gathering views to help inform new Statutory Guidance for public bodies, to support them in putting the climate change duties into practice. The Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 (‘the 2009 Act’) places duties on relevant public bodies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, contribute to delivery of the Scottish National Adaptation Plan, and to act in the most sustainable way. These duties are known as the climate change duties, or the public bodies... More
    Closed 23 May 2025

  • Draft Just Transition Plan for Transport

    Between now and 2045, we need to transform how we travel in Scotland. Currently, transport accounts for the largest share of our greenhouse gas emissions. That needs to change, and the sector needs to decarbonise, in order for us to achieve net zero. We can and must cut emissions by changing how people, goods, and services, move around our country and beyond, but we aim to do so in a way that is fair and just. Therefore, we are consulting on the first draft Just Transition Plan... More
    Closed 19 May 2025

  • Process for determining electoral boundaries in Scotland

    This consultation will discuss some of the processes used to approve changes to electoral boundaries in the UK and around the world, and ask for your views on which of the models may be a best fit for Scotland. It will also ask whether any other changes should be made as a result of any change to the approval process. Read the consultation paper . The consultation paper contains full background information for this consultation. You may find it useful to read or refer to while... More
    Opened 15 May 2025

  • Qualifications for teachers of children and young people who are blind, partially sighted, deaf, or deafblind

    This consultation seeks to capture views on proposed changes to the guidance on appropriate qualifications and teacher competencies for teachers who teach children and young people who are blind or partially sighted, deaf, or deafblind. The proposed changes take into account developments in sensory impairment education since 2007, with the overall aim of enhancing attainment for children and young people with these specific learning needs. We would like to hear your views on the... More
    Opened 8 May 2025

  • Contract Law - review of retention

    The Scottish Government consulted on the Scottish Law Commission (SLC) contract law review report in July 2024. The aim of the consultation was to establish whether the landscape around this area of the law has changed since the report was published in March 2018 and if so whether the changes are material to its recommendations. One of the issues tested in the consultation was the need for reforms around the principle of mutuality and, particularly, retention. ... More
    Closed 5 May 2025

  • Developing an ecosystem restoration code for Scotland

    In the 2024 Natural Capital Market Framework, the Scottish Government (SG) committed to supporting the development of an Ecosystem Restoration Code (ERC) for Scotland as a new high-integrity market mechanism that could attract responsible private investment into nature restoration and biodiversity projects. This commitment is being delivered in 2025 via an SG-NatureScot partnership project. SG has published an Engagement Paper which summarises the results of the Discovery Phase of the... More
    Opened 28 April 2025

  • Health: Long Term Conditions Framework

    The purpose of this consultation Many people in Scotland live with the challenges of a long term condition; recently reported as 38% of our population. Long term conditions can impact a person’s whole life: their physical health, mental health, relationships, finance and work. The Scottish Government has a number of strategies and policies in place to improve care and support for a range of long term conditions and condition groups. The approaches taken focus on... More
    Opened 23 April 2025

  • Housing (Scotland) Bill

    This consultation seeks views on how powers within the Housing (Scotland) Bill ("the Bill") could be used to exempt certain types of properties from rent control and the circumstances where rents could be increased above the level of any introduced rent cap. The Bill, as introduced to Parliament on 26 March 2024, creates a power for Scottish Ministers to introduce rent control areas. This would only be done following an assessment of an area’s rents by the local authority and a... More
    Opened 23 April 2025

  • Mitigation of the two-child cap

    This consultation seeks views on the Scottish Government’s proposed approach to mitigate the two-child cap policy applied by the UK Government. The two-child cap restricts support through Universal Credit (UC) to the first two children in a family except in some limited circumstances. The Scottish Government is committed to developing systems to alleviate the impact of the two-child cap in Scotland in 2026. The consultation paper sets out more fully the proposed approach which intends to... More
    Closed 18 April 2025

  • Community benefits from net zero energy developments

    This consultation is part of a review of the Good Practice Principles for onshore and offshore renewable energy, which seeks to ensure that our guidance helps communities and developers get the best from community benefits. Community benefits are additional benefits, that are currently voluntary, which developers provide to the “community”, and which sit independently of the planning and consenting system. They provide an opportunity to share in the benefits of the energy... More
    Closed 11 April 2025

  • The Scottish Register of Tartans: fees review

    We want to hear your views about the fees associated with the Scottish Register of Tartans (the Register) . Since 2009, National Records of Scotland (NRS) has maintained and overseen the Register. It is internationally recognised as the pre-eminent repository for the promotion and preservation of tartans. With more than 10,000 tartans, the Register promotes and protects information about one of Scotland’s most recognisable cultural assets. NRS is a non-ministerial... More
    Opened 7 April 2025

  • A local authority General Power of Competence

    The Scottish Government would like to invite you to respond to this consultation on a local authority General Power of Competence. We are pleased to be taking forward this work as part of our commitment to joint partnership working with COSLA and Local Government and would like to ask for your views and perspectives on potential legislative changes to enable local authorities to more effectively deliver public services. A General Power of Competence A... More
    Closed 1 April 2025

  • The Scottish Bus Open Data Consultation

    In 2019 the Scottish Government brought in new primary legislation for transport (the Transport (Scotland) Act 2019), which included new provisions to better define bus open data, and to require it be shared for the new purpose of directly informing passengers (or potential passengers) about services. We believe that bus open data is essential to make travel on public transport more accessible, and to increase patronage of public transport in Scotland. We intend to introduce new... More
    Opened 31 March 2025

  • Scottish Energy Performance Certificate Register Lodgement Fees and Penalty Charges

    This technical consultation builds upon previous Scottish Government consultations on EPC (Energy Performance Certificate) Reform in 2021 and 2023. The Scottish Government has issued its response to the 2023 consultation in January 2025, which sets out our final decisions on EPC Reform prior to laying new EPC Regulations in Parliament later during 2025. We plan to bring the new Regulations into force in the second half of 2026, to align with the introduction of the UK Home Energy Model... More
    Closed 28 March 2025

  • Dual mandates in the Scottish Parliament

    The Scottish Elections (Representation and Reform) Bill was passed unanimously on 17 December by the Scottish Parliament. It places a duty on Scottish Ministers to bring forward regulations which: must have the effect of prohibiting Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs) from holding dual mandates in the House of Commons or the House of Lords may make provision prohibiting MSPs from holding dual mandates as Councillors This consultation seeks views on the principles... More
    Closed 23 March 2025

  • Scottish Aggregates Tax - proposed administration regulations

    This consultation seeks views on the proposed administration regulations for the Scottish Aggregates Tax (SAT). This will enable the Scottish Government to gain views from both the public and professional experts to inform the development of SAT policy in advance of the proposed introduction date of 1 April 2026. The Aggregates Tax and Devolved Tax Administration (Scotland) Act 2024 (“the 2024 Act") provides for the key elements of a new devolved tax on the commercial... More
    Closed 21 March 2025

  • NHSScotland 'Once for Scotland' managing health at work workforce policies

    The ‘Once for Scotland’ Workforce Policies Programme is designed to review and transform existing workforce policies (previously known as Partnership Information Network (PIN) Policies) in line with our vision: ‘Once for Scotland Workforce policies will promote NHSScotland as a modern, exemplar employer; showcasing our core values, and promoting consistent employment policy and practice that supports the implementation of the Staff Governance Standard and... More
    Closed 21 March 2025

  • Rural Delivery Plan: vision, strategic objectives and key performance indicators

    Why are we writing a Rural Delivery Plan? The Scottish Government is committed to publishing a plan setting out how all parts of the Scottish Government are delivering for Scotland’s rural communities, by the end of the current Parliament. This is a key opportunity to take a fresh look at how we can work together to bring about change and address the issues that we face in rural Scotland. The Rural Delivery Plan will act as a framework to consider the full breadth of policy... More
    Closed 17 March 2025
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