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129
Current MSPs
415
MSPs ever elected
13
Parties on record
473
Bills tracked
1,750
Bill stages
1,457
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Visitor Levy (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill
Stage 3 · 24 Mar 2026
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37 in 2025 (-15)
Total tracked
473
since 1999 · 1,750 stages
Completed final stage 408 In progress 5 Stalled 12+ months 7 Stopped/fell 53

Progress status is inferred from the latest structured bill stage. “Stopped/fell” means the bill did not reach a final stage before the current session.

Hit rate

Bills that made it through, by type

Type Bills Completed Rate
Government 162 160 98.8%
Executive 152 146 96.1%
Member's 96 41 42.7%
Budget 28 28 100.0%
Private 24 22 91.7%
Committee 10 10 100.0%
Hybrid 1 1 100.0%
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The last stage non-completed bills reached

Latest stage Bills Stopped Stalled
Stage 1 32 25 2
Introduced 29 24 5
Stage 2 3 3 0
Consideration Stage 1 1 0
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SP Bill 43

Scottish Public Sector Ombudsman Bill

Type
Executive
Sponsor
MacKay, Angus
Stage records
3
Inferred status
Stopped/fell
Matched timetable motions
1
Pace

From first stage (12 May 1999) to latest (05 Mar 2002): 1,028 days across 3 stages. ~798 days slower than the chamber median (230). In progress

Stage timeline

  1. Introduced
    12 May 1999 · Watch on SPTV ↗
  2. Stage 1
    31 Jan 2002 · 995 days since prior stage (median 147) · Watch on SPTV ↗
  3. Stage 2
    05 Mar 2002 · 33 days since prior stage (median 187) · Watch on SPTV ↗

Bureau motions that timetabled this bill

Designation of Lead Committees 29 Nov 2001
S1M-02494 · Parliamentary Bureau
That the Parliament agrees that the Local Government Committee is designated as lead committee in consideration of the Scottish Public Sector Ombudsman Bill and that the Health and Community Care Committee and the Social Justice Committee be secondary committees.