All meetings of the committee

All meetings of the Rural Affairs and Islands Committee held in 2024. On meeting pages you can find agendas, meeting papers, minutes, and links to Official Reports and videos of meetings.

31st Meeting

18 December

1. Follow-up inquiry into salmon farming in Scotland

30th Meeting

11 December

1. Follow-up inquiry into salmon farming in Scotland (in private)
2. Work programme (in private)

29th Meeting

20 November

1. Decision on taking business in private
2. Subordinate legislation
3. Subordinate legislation
4. Amendment to the Joint Fisheries Statement
5. Petition PE1758 End greyhound racing In Scotland

28th Meeting

13 November

1. Decision on taking business in private
2. Follow-up inquiry into salmon farming in Scotland
3. Follow-up inquiry into salmon farming in Scotland (in private)

27th Meeting

06 November

1. Decision on taking business in private
2. Amendment to the Joint Fisheries Statement
3. Subordinate legislation
4. Amendment to the Joint Fisheries Statement

26th Meeting

30 October

1. Declaration of interests
2. Decision on taking business in private
3. Subordinate legislation
4. Subordinate legislation
5. Pre-Budget Scrutiny 2025 to 2026

25th Meeting

09 October

1. Subordinate legislation
2. Subordinate legislation

24th Meeting

02 October

1. Follow-up inquiry into salmon farming in Scotland
2. UK subordinate legislation
3. Follow-up inquiry into salmon farming in Scotland (in private)
4. Pre-Budget Scrutiny (in private)

23rd Meeting

25 September

1. Pre-Budget Scrutiny 2025 to 2026
2. Subordinate legislation
3. Subordinate legislation
4. Subordinate legislation
5. Subordinate legislation
6. Subordinate legislation
7. Subordinate legislation
8. Pre-Budget Scrutiny (in private)
9. Follow-up inquiry into salmon farming in Scotland (in private)

22nd Meeting

18 September

1. Subordinate legislation
2. Follow-up inquiry into salmon farming in Scotland
3. Welfare of Dogs (Scotland) Bill
4. Follow-up inquiry into salmon farming in Scotland (in private)

21st Meeting

11 September

1. Decision on taking business in private
2. Rural Affairs and Islands remit
3. Rural Affairs and Islands remit

20th Meeting

04 September

1. Decision on taking business in private
2. Pre-Budget Scrutiny 2025 to 2026
3. Pre-Budget Scrutiny 2025 to 2026

19th Meeting

26 June

1. Decision on taking business in private
2. Follow-up inquiry into salmon farming in Scotland
3. UK subordinate legislation
4. Follow-up inquiry into salmon farming in Scotland (in private)
5. Petition PE1758: End greyhound racing in Scotland

18th Meeting

19 June

1. Declaration of interests
2. Decision on taking business in private
3. Follow-up inquiry into salmon farming in Scotland
4. UK subordinate legislation
5. Pre-budget scrutiny 2025 to 2026
6. Follow-up inquiry into salmon farming in Scotland (in private)

17th Meeting

12 June

1. Decision on taking business in private
2. Follow-up inquiry into salmon farming in Scotland
3. Subordinate legislation
4. Follow-up inquiry into salmon in Scotland
5. Follow up inquiry into salmon farming in Scotland (in private)

16th Meeting

05 June

1. Decision on taking business in private
2. Follow-up inquiry into salmon farming in Scotland
3. Follow-up inquiry into salmon farming in Scotland

15th Meeting

29 May

1. Petition PE1490: Control of wild goose numbers (in private)
2. Annual report 2023 to 2024 (in private)

14th Meeting

22 May

1. Decision on taking business in private
2. Petition PE1758: End greyhound racing in Scotland
3. Petition PE1758: End greyhound racing in Scotland

13th Meeting

15 May

1. UK subordinate legislation
2. Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill
3. Declaration of interests

12th Meeting

08 May

1. Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill

11th Meeting

01 May

1. Subordinate legislation
2. Subordinate legislation
3. Subordinate legislation
4. UK subordinate legislation

10th Meeting

24 April

1. Subordinate legislation
2. Work programme (in private)

9th Meeting

20 March

1. Subordinate legislation
2. Subordinate legislation
3. Petition PE1758: End greyhound racing in Scotland
4. Work programme (in private)

8th Meeting

13 March

1. Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill (in private)

7th Meeting

06 March

1. Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill (in private)

6th Meeting

28 February

1. Subordinate legislation
2. Subordinate legislation
3. Subordinate legislation
4. Subordinate legislation
5. Subordinate legislation
6. UK subordinate legislation
7. Welfare of Dogs (Scotland) Bill (in private)

5th Meeting

21 February

1. Declaration of interests
2. Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill
3. Subordinate legislation
4. UK subordinate legislation
5. Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Bill

4th Meeting

07 February

1. Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Bill

3rd Meeting

31 January

1. Decision on taking business in private
2. Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill
3. Animal Welfare (Livestock Exports) Bill (UK Parliament legislation)
4. Animal Welfare (Livestock Exports) Bill (UK Parliament legislation)

2nd Meeting

24 January

1. Scottish Government documents for approval
2. Scottish Government documents for approval
3. Subordinate legislation
4. Subordinate legislation

1st Meeting

17 January

1. Budget 2024 - 2025
2. Subordinate legislation

All meetings of the Rural Affairs and Islands Committee held in 2023. On meeting pages you can find agendas, meeting papers, minutes, and links to Official Reports and videos of meetings.

34th Meeting

20 December

1. Decision on taking business in private
2. Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill
3. UK subordinate legislation
4. Common frameworks

33rd Meeting

13 December

1. Subordinate legislation
2. Subordinate legislation
3. Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill

32nd Meeting

06 December

1. Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill
2. UK subordinate legislation
3. Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill (in private)

31st Meeting

29 November

1. Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill

30th Meeting

22 November

1. Decision on taking business in private
2. Subordinate legislation
3. Subordinate legislation
4. Welfare of Dogs (Scotland) Bill
5. Subordinate legislation
6. Subordinate legislation
7. Subordinate legislation
8. UK subordinate legislation
9. Welfare of Dogs (Scotland) Bill

29th Meeting

15 November

1. Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Bill (in private)
2. Future agriculture policy (in private)

28th Meeting

08 November

1. Decision on taking business in private
2. Future agriculture policy
3. Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Bill

27th Meeting

01 November

1. Decision on taking business in private
2. Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Bill
3. Pre-Budget Scrutiny
4. Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill

26th Meeting

25 October

1. Decision on taking business in private
2. Welfare of Dogs (Scotland) Bill
3. Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill
4. Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Bill (in private)

25th Meeting

04 October

1. UK subordinate legislation
2. Regulatory alignment with EU law
3. Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Bill (in private)

24th Meeting

27 September

1. Decision on taking business in private
2. Pre-Budget Scrutiny
3. EU common agriculture policy reform

23rd Meeting

20 September

1. Welfare of Dogs (Scotland) Bill
2. Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Bill (in private)

22nd Meeting

13 September

1. Subordinate legislation
2. Subordinate legislation
3. Subordinate legislation
4. Subordinate legislation
5. Subordinate legislation
6. Bracken control
7. Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Bill (in private)

21st Meeting

06 September

1. Declaration of interests
2. Welfare of Dogs (Scotland) Bill (in private)

20th Meeting

28 June

1. Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Bill
2. Subordinate legislation
3. Subordinate legislation
4. UK subordinate legislation
5. UK subordinate legislation
6. Work programme (in private)

19th Meeting

21 June

1. Work programme (in private)
2. Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Bill
3. Subordinate legislation
4. Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Bill (in private)

18th Meeting

14 June

1. Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Bill
2. Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Bill (in private)
3. Work programme (in private)

17th Meeting

31 May

1. Decision on taking business in private
2. Rural Affairs and Islands remit
3. Subordinate legislation
4. Subordinate legislation
5. Subordinate legislation
6. Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Bill
7. Rural Affairs and Islands remit
8. Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Bill

16th Meeting

24 May

1. Decision on taking business in private
2. National Islands Plan Annual Report 2022
3. Subordinate legislation
4. Annual Report 2022-23
5. National Islands Plan Annual Report 2022
6. Work programme (in private)

15th Meeting

17 May

1. Subordinate legislation

14th Meeting

10 May

1. Decision on taking business in private
2. Subordinate legislation
3. Salmon farming in Scotland
4. Salmon farming in Scotland

13th Meeting

03 May

1. Declaration of interests
2. Petition PE1758: End greyhound racing in Scotland
3. Petition PE1758: End greyhound racing in Scotland (in private)
4. Future agriculture policy (in private)

12th Meeting

26 April

1. Declaration of interests
2. Future agriculture policy
3. Petition PE1758: End greyhound racing in Scotland
4. UK subordinate legislation
5. Future agriculture policy (in private)
6. Petition PE1758: End greyhound racing in Scotland (in private)

11th Meeting

19 April

1. Future agriculture policy
2. Future agriculture policy (in private)

10th Meeting

29 March

1. Decision on taking business in private
2. Petition PE1758: End greyhound racing in Scotland
3. Petition PE1758: End greyhound racing in Scotland
4. Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Bill

9th Meeting

22 March

1. Future agriculture policy
2. Future agriculture policy (in private)

8th Meeting

15 March

1. Decision on taking business in private
2. Subordinate legislation
3. Subordinate legislation
4. Future agriculture policy
5. Petition PE1758: End greyhound racing in Scotland
6. Future agriculture policy (in private)

7th Meeting

08 March

1. Future agriculture policy
2. Future agriculture policy (in private)
3. Work programme (in private)

6th Meeting

01 March

1. Future agriculture policy
2. UK subordinate legislation
3. Future agriculture policy (in private)

5th Meeting

22 February

1. Decision on taking business in private
2. Future agriculture policy
3. Future agriculture policy

4th Meeting

08 February

1. Petition PE1951: Reinstate inshore coastal limit on the use of dredge and trawl fishing gears
2. Work programme (in private)

3rd Meeting

01 February

1. Subordinate legislation
2. UK subordinate legislation

2nd Meeting

25 January

1. Decision on taking business in private
2. Shark Fins Bill (UK Parliament legislation)
3. Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill (UK Parliament legislation)
4. Subordinate legislation
5. Shark Fins Bill (UK Parliament legislation)
6. Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill (UK Parliament legislation)
7. Work programme (in private)

1st Meeting

11 January

1. Budget 2023-24

All meetings of the Rural Affairs and Islands Committee held in 2022. On meeting pages you can find agendas, meeting papers, minutes, and links to Official Reports and videos of meetings.

34th Meeting

14 December

1. Subordinate legislation
2. Subordinate legislation
3. Subordinate legislation
4. Hunting with Dogs (Scotland) Bill
5. Work programme (in private)

33rd Meeting

07 December

1. Hunting with Dogs (Scotland) Bill

32nd Meeting

30 November

1. Hunting with Dogs (Scotland) Bill
2. Avian flu in Scotland
3. UK subordinate legislation
4. Work programme (in private)

31st Meeting

23 November

1. Hunting with Dogs (Scotland) Bill
2. Work programme (in private)

30th Meeting

16 November

1. Hunting with Dogs (Scotland) Bill
2. UK subordinate legislation
3. Public petitions: PE01758 End greyhound racing in Scotland
4. Work programme (in private)

29th Meeting

09 November

1. Public petitions: PE1490 Control of wild goose numbers
2. Subordinate legislation
3. UK subordinate legislation

28th Meeting

02 November

1. Decision on taking business in private
2. Common frameworks
3. UK Subordinate legislation
4. Common frameworks
5. Pre-Budget Scrutiny (in private)

27th Meeting

26 October

1. Inshore fisheries
2. UK subordinate legislation

26th Meeting

05 October

1. Decision on taking business in private
2. Pre-Budget Scrutiny
3. Subordinate legislation
4. Pre-Budget Scrutiny

25th Meeting

28 September

1. Pre-Budget Scrutiny
2. UK subordinate legislation

24th Meeting

21 September

1. Pre-Budget Scrutiny (in private)
2. Hunting with Dogs (Scotland) Bill (in private)

23rd Meeting

07 September

1. Decision on taking business in private
2. Rural Affairs and Islands remit
3. Subordinate legislation
4. Common frameworks
5. Hunting with Dogs (Scotland) Bill (in private)

22nd Meeting

29 June

1. Hunting with Dogs (Scotland) Bill
2. Subordinate legislation
3. UK subordinate legislation
4. Work programme (in private)
5. Hunting with Dogs (Scotland) Bill (in private)

21st Meeting

22 June

1. Decision on taking business in private
2. Hunting with Dogs (Scotland) Bill
3. Aquaculture regulatory review
4. Impact of EU exit on the rural affairs and islands remit

20th Meeting

15 June

1. Decision on taking business in private
2. Subordinate legislation
3. UK subordinate legislation
4. Subordinate legislation
5. Hunting with Dogs (Scotland) Bill
6. Impact of EU exit on the rural affairs and islands remit

19th Meeting

08 June

1. Hunting with Dogs (Scotland) Bill
2. Hunting with Dogs (Scotland) Bill (in private)

18th Meeting

01 June

1. Hunting with Dogs (Scotland) Bill
2. UK subordinate legislation
3. Hunting with Dogs (Scotland) Bill (in private)

17th Meeting

25 May

1. Work programme (in private)
2. Annual report (in private)

16th Meeting

18 May

1. Decision on taking business in private
2. Subordinate legislation
3. Subordinate legislation
4. Subordinate legislation
5. Impact of EU exit on the rural affairs and islands remit
6. Impact of EU exit on the rural affairs and islands remit

15th Meeting

11 May

1. Subordinate legislation
2. UK subordinate legislation
3. Good Food Nation (Scotland) Bill

14th Meeting

04 May

1. Decision on taking business in private
2. Islands (Scotland) Act 2018 – Islands plan annual report
3. Subordinate legislation
4. Subordinate legislation
5. Islands (Scotland) Act 2018 – Islands plan annual report

13th Meeting

27 April

1. Decision on taking business in private
2. Consideration of petition
3. Crisis in Ukraine - impact on food supply chain in Scotland
4. Crisis in Ukraine - impact on food supply chain in Scotland

12th Meeting

20 April

1. Decision on taking business in private
2. Petition PE1758: End greyhound racing in Scotland
3. Subordinate legislation
4. Subordinate legislation
5. UK subordinate legislation
6. Draft Joint Fisheries Statement

11th Meeting

30 March

1. Decision on taking business in private
2. UK subordinate legislation
3. Hunting with Dogs (Scotland) Bill

10th Meeting

23 March

1. Decision on taking business in private
2. Draft Joint Fisheries Statement
3. UK subordinate legislation
4. Draft Joint Fisheries Statement

9th Meeting

16 March

1. Subordinate legislation
2. UK subordinate legislation
3. Good Food Nation (Scotland) Bill (in private)

8th Meeting

09 March

1. Subordinate legislation
2. Subordinate legislation
3. Subordinate legislation
4. Subordinate legislation
5. UK subordinate legislation
6. Good Food Nation (Scotland) Bill (in private)

7th Meeting

02 March

1. Subordinate legislation

6th Meeting

23 February

1. Good Food Nation (Scotland) Bill
2. Good Food Nation (Scotland) Bill (in private)
3. Work programme (in private)
4. National Planning Framework 4 (in private)

5th Meeting

09 February

1. Decision on taking business in private
2. Draft National Planning Framework 4
3. Subordinate legislation
4. Subordinate legislation
5. Good Food Nation (Scotland) Bill
6. Draft National Planning Framework 4
7. Good Food Nation (Scotland) Bill (in private)

4th Meeting

02 February

1. Decision on taking business in private
2. Good Food Nation (Scotland) Bill
3. UK subordinate legislation
4. Subordinate legislation
5. Joint Fisheries Statement
6. Impact of EU exit
7. Good Food Nation (Scotland) Bill (in private)

3rd Meeting

26 January

1. Good Food Nation (Scotland) Bill
2. Subordinate legislation
3. Subordinate legislation
4. Good Food Nation (Scotland) Bill (in private)

2nd Meeting

19 January

1. Good Food Nation (Scotland) Bill
2. UK Subordinate legislation
3. Good Food Nation (Scotland) Bill (in private)

1st Meeting

12 January

1. Decision on taking business in private
2. Scottish Budget 2022-23
3. Impact of EU exit
4. Subordinate legislation
5. Subordinate legislation
6. Scottish Budget 2022-23
7. Impact of EU exit

All meetings of the Rural Affairs and Islands Committee held in 2021. On meeting pages you can find agendas, meeting papers, minutes, and links to Official Reports and videos of meetings.

15th Meeting

15 December

1. UK Subordinate legislation
2. Work programme (in private)

14th Meeting

08 December

1. Climate and nature emergencies
2. Subordinate legislation
3. Climate and nature emergencies (in private)
4. Work programme (in private)

13th Meeting

01 December

1. Climate and nature emergencies
2. UK subordinate legislation

12th Meeting

24 November

1. Subordinate legislation
2. Subordinate legislation
3. UK subordinate legislation
4. Climate and nature emergencies
5. Work programme (in private)

11th Meeting

17 November

1. Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (UK Parliament legislation)
2. Subordinate legislation
3. Subordinate legislation
4. Climate and nature emergencies

10th Meeting

10 November

1. Evidence Session
2. Subordinate legislation
3. Subordinate legislation
4. European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018

9th Meeting

03 November

1. Good Food Nation (Scotland) Bill
2. Good Food Nation (Scotland) Bill (in private)
3. Work programme (in private)

8th Meeting

27 October

1. Work programme (in private)
2. Budget Scrutiny 2022/23 (in private)

7th Meeting

06 October

1. Decision on taking business in private
2. European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018
3. Subordinate legislation
4. European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018
5. Scotland’s Island Communities
6. Evidence Session (in private)

6th Meeting

29 September

1. Subordinate legislation
2. Subordinate legislation
3. Animal health and welfare
4. Evidence Session (in private)

5th Meeting

22 September

1. Farming and crofting
2. Subordinate legislation
3. Subordinate legislation
4. Farming and crofting (in private)

4th Meeting

15 September

1. Fisheries and aquaculture
2. Fisheries and aquaculture (in private)

3rd Meeting

08 September

1. Scottish Government priorities
2. Scottish Government priorities (in private)

2nd Meeting

01 September

1. Food and drink supply chain
2. Choice of Deputy Convener
3. Food and drink supply chain
4. Decision on taking business in private

1st Meeting

22 June

1. Declaration of interests
2. Choice of Convener
3. Choice of Deputy Convener and Legacy paper