Open Consultations

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  • Amendments to Scottish Road Works Regulations 2025

    As in previous years, we intend to create a new Scottish Statutory Instrument accounting for the target cost of operating the Scottish Road Works Register in the 2025-26 financial year. The intention is to revoke the 2024 Instrument, and replace with a new Instrument for 2025. This consultation seeks your views on making this change. As you complete your response, each page will provide the option to 'Save and come back later' at the bottom. This means you can save your progress and... More
    Closes 17 December 2024
  • Livestock Feed Controls in Scotland review

    Before responding to the consultation, please read the consultation paper . This document contains more information on the proposals, including: information on the history of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies ( TSEs) in Scotland more information on the proposed changes our plans for ensuring processed animal protein ( PAP) cross contamination does not occur. Livestock feed controls in Scotland protect both livestock and public health. The strict... More
    Closes 1 January 2025
  • Environmental Protection (Single-Use Vapes) (Scotland) Regulations 2024 - fixed penalty notice amendment: consultation

    Environmental Protection (Injurious Articles) (Fixed Penalty Notices and Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2025: Consultation on amendments to introduce Fixed Penalty Notices for offences under the Single-use Vapes Regulations, the Single-use Plastic Products Regulations, the Cotton Buds Regulations and the Microbeads Regulations and to make other amendments to the Single-use Vapes Regulations including a change to the coming into force date On the 18th September 2024, the... More
    Closes 9 January 2025
  • Palliative Care Matters for All: strategy consultation

    This five year strategy (2025-2030) builds on our previous palliative care strategies, 'Living and Dying Well: A national action plan for palliative and end of life care in Scotland (2008)' and 'Palliative and end of life care: strategic framework for action (2015)'. It sets out our aims and intended outcomes, with specific actions for each outcome. Through these outcomes and actions, we expect that adults and children, as well as their families and carers, will have better experiences... More
    Closes 10 January 2025
  • Draft Grangemouth Just Transition Plan: call for stakeholder views

    Consultation is an essential part of the policymaking process. It gives us the opportunity to consider your opinion and expertise on a proposed area of work. We are seeking views on the proposed vision and Just Transition Plan for the Grangemouth Industrial Cluster, which we have set out in the draft document. We want the views of community, business, third sector and all those with an interest in Grangemouth to shape the final publication of the Grangemouth Just Transition Plan in... More
    Closes 16 January 2025
  • Draft Regulations regarding the transfer of the Police Appeals Tribunal to the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland

    We want to hear your views on the proposed transfer of the functions and members of the current Police Appeals Tribunal into the Scottish Tribunals structure. It is proposed that the existing Police Appeals Tribunal will be transferred to the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland General Regulatory Chamber, with a further right of appeal in certain circumstances to the Upper Tribunal for Scotland. The Tribunals (Scotland) Act 2014 ("the 2014 Act") creates a new, simplified statutory... More
    Closes 22 January 2025
  • Proposals to amend the legislation on religious observance and religious education in schools

    This consultation seeks views on proposed changes to the current legislation on religious observance (RO) and religious and moral education (RME) in schools. The proposed changes will support the alignment of legislation with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child by requiring that children and young people’s views are taken into account in relation to their participation in RO and RME. Read the consultation paper As you complete your... More
    Closes 26 January 2025
  • National Marine Plan 2 Planning Position Statement

    Scotland adopted its first National Marine Plan in 2015 to help manage the use of Scotland’s seas in a sustainable way. In 2022 work began to create an updated national marine plan, to better reflect how the sea is currently being used, and to plan for its continued and sustainable future use. Past, present and future challenges mean we need to make the right choices for our shared marine space. A Planning Position Statement (PPS) summarising all that work has now been... More
    Closes 28 January 2025
  • Developing a universal definition of ‘care experience’

    The purpose of this consultation is to seek views on the need for a universal definition of ‘care experience’ and what the potential impacts of this could be. The Promise tells us that while it is not a legal term, ‘care experience’ is a term that has a special and different meaning for many of the people who identify with it. This includes infants, children and young people , and adults who may choose to identify as ‘care experienced’. Reasons... More
    Closes 31 January 2025
  • Inshore Fisheries Management Improvement Programme: Call for evidence

    This call for evidence seeks input from people with expert knowledge of inshore marine fisheries in Scotland (e.g. academics, fishers, national and regional fisheries representatives, eNGOs, seafood processors, coastal communities). We anticipate input to range from papers and data to relaying of personal experience and expert opinion to inform development of this policy. The Scottish Government’s Marine Directorate has an Inshore Fisheries Management Improvement (IFMI) Programme that... More
    Closes 4 February 2025
  • Digital assets in Scots private law: consultation

    It is important that Scotland’s legal system keeps pace with developments across the digital and tech landscape, to help support economic growth and to allow Scotland to remain attractive for investment. T he Scottish Government appointed an Expert Reference Group to provide legal clarification on Scotland’s path to accommodating digital assets within Scots private law, including the status and treatment of crypto-assets and related technologies. The Group reported to... More
    Closes 5 February 2025
  • Equality and Human Rights Mainstreaming Strategy

    The Scottish Government is gathering views to help inform the Equality and Human Rights Mainstreaming Strategy. The Strategy is fundamental to achieving positive change and a fairer, more equal, society in Scotland for all of those who live here. It is key to tackling persistent inequality in society and sustaining equality of opportunity for all of those who live in Scotland. By establishing a clear framework for the Scottish Government and wider... More
    Closes 5 February 2025
  • Future of foster care consultation

    This consultation sets out a vision for the future of foster care which prioritises children’s experiences, and meets their many and varied needs, in a changing sector and society. It proposes a new flexible fostering approach that builds on the unique skills and qualities of foster carers, the good practice and innovation already happening across Scotland and the UK, and it is underpinned by comprehensive ongoing support for foster carers. We are also consulting on the key issues that... More
    Closes 6 February 2025
  • Proposals to amend Scottish Government policy on the protection afforded to certain Ramsar features

    This consultation seeks views on proposed changes to Scottish Government policy on the protection of Ramsar sites, to treat them in the same way as European sites for the purposes of the Habitats Regulations Appraisal process. Read the consultation paper As you complete your response, each page will provide the option to 'Save and come back later' at the bottom. This means you can save your progress and return to the consultation at any time before it closes. If you don't... More
    Closes 7 February 2025
  • National Speed Management Review

    The Scottish Government has undertaken a National Speed Management Review to examine the potential effects of changes to speed limits across Scotland. The review supports Scotland’s Road Safety Framework to 2030 and seeks to ensure speed limits on Scotland’s roads are appropriate and help contribute to a reduction in injury and death on our roads. This consultation invites feedback on proposals to lower the national speed limit on single carriageway roads from 60 mph to 50... More
    Closes 5 March 2025
  • Scottish seabird conservation: action plan

    The recent seabird census and the ‘Birds of Conservation Concern 5’ report highlight that many of Scotland’s internationally important seabird populations are in trouble, and being impacted by a range of pressures, including climate change, and more recently highly pathogenic avian influenza. Seabirds are vital to the marine ecosystem, and their decline signals broader environmental issues that affect livelihoods, food, and recreation. Co-ordinated action is therefore... More
    Closes 5 March 2025
  • The draft Debt Recovery (Mental Health Moratorium) (Scotland) Regulations

    The Bankruptcy and Diligence (Scotland) Bill completed its progress through the Scottish Parliament on 6 June 2024. Section 1 of the Bill requires Scottish Ministers to create a moratorium on debt recovery action by creditors against individuals who have a mental illness. This is an enabling power which lays out the framework for the moratorium with the detail of the process to be provided in secondary legislation. A draft of the The Debt Recovery (Mental Health Moratorium)... More
    Closes 17 March 2025
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