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Bills before Parliament

Bills as they pass through Parliament: stages, sponsors, types, where they get stuck, and the Bureau motions that timetabled them.

129
Current MSPs
415
MSPs ever elected
13
Parties on record
473
Bills tracked
1,750
Bill stages
1,457
Timetable motions
Legislation

Bills, stage by stage

Currently in progress
12
bills not yet passed, stopped or stalled
Latest activity
Visitor Levy (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill
Stage 3 · 24 Mar 2026
Bills with activity 2026
22
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%
Where things stall

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
Showing 5 of 5 bills. Latest 30 days: 0 bills with stage activity.
Bill Type Introduced Latest stage (desc) Status Stages
Freedom of Information Reform (Scotland) Bill
SP Bill 72 · Clark, Katy
Member's 02 Jun 2025 Stage 1
17 Feb 2026
 In progress 3
Ecocide (Scotland) Bill
SP Bill 70 · Lennon, Monica
Member's 29 May 2025 Stage 1
05 Feb 2026
 In progress 3
Prostitution (Offences and Support) (Scotland) Bill
SP Bill 69 · Regan, Ash
Member's 20 May 2025 Stage 1
03 Feb 2026
 In progress 2
Wellbeing and Sustainable Development (Scotland) Bill
SP Bill 63 · Boyack, Sarah
Member's 27 Mar 2025 Stage 1
22 Jan 2026
 In progress 2
Right to Addiction Recovery (Scotland) Bill
SP Bill 48 · Ross, Douglas
Member's 14 May 2024 Stage 1
09 Oct 2025
 In progress 2
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SP Bill 72

Freedom of Information Reform (Scotland) Bill

Type
Member's
Sponsor
Clark, Katy
Stage records
3
Inferred status
In progress
Matched timetable motions
1
Pace

From first stage (02 Jun 2025) to latest (17 Feb 2026): 260 days across 2 stages. about the chamber median (230 days). In progress

Stage timeline

  1. Stage 2
    Unknown
  2. Introduced
    02 Jun 2025 · Watch on SPTV ↗
  3. Stage 1
    17 Feb 2026 · 260 days since prior stage (median 147) · Watch on SPTV ↗

Bureau motions that timetabled this bill

Designation of Lead Committee 11 Jun 2025
S6M-17901 · Parliamentary Bureau
That the Parliament agrees that the Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee be designated as the lead committee in consideration of the Freedom of Information Reform (Scotland) Bill at stage 1.