Scottish Parliament

Coming up in Parliament

In the last week before summer recess, business will include:

• all three stages of the Coronavirus Extension and Expiry (Scotland) Bill
• a Ministerial statement on the Tackling child poverty progress report
• the first meetings of parliament committees for this session    

What's on

New Bill published in response to COVID-19

The first Bill of the new parliamentary session was introduced on Friday.

The Coronavirus (Extension and Expiry) (Scotland) Bill aims to make changes to existing legislation which was introduced in response to the pandemic.

Find out more about the Bill

Catch up on recent business 

There are lots of ways to catch up on what's been happening at Holyrood:

Watch archive video on Parliament TV, including FMQs 

Read blogs from SPICe (the information centre)

Read recent votes and motions

Read what's been said in Parliament

Presiding Officers

Alison Johnstone MSP is the elected Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament.

Annabelle Ewing and Liam McArthur are Deputy Presiding Officers (DPOs).

Find out more about the Presiding Officer and DPOs

Public petitions

Petitions are a way to ask the Parliament to do something.

Any person or organisation can submit a petition: you do not have to be a certain age or live in Scotland.

MSPs cannot submit a petition but they can support them.

Find out more about submitting a petition to the Parliament