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Meeting of the Parliament 25 February 2026 [Draft]

25 Feb 2026 · S6 · Meeting of the Parliament
Item of business
Portfolio Question Time
Visitor Levy (Scotland) Act 2024 (Child Disability Payment Exemption)
McKee, Ivan SNP Glasgow Provan Watch on SPTV

The Visitor Levy (Scotland) Act 2024 Amendment Regulations 2026 were laid in the Scottish Parliament on 9 January 2026. The regulations expand the list of qualifying benefits to include all forms of disability assistance that are provided under the Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018, a broader range of United Kingdom disability and war-related benefits and equivalent payments that are received under European Union/European Economic Area, Switzerland, Gibraltar, Northern Ireland or UK-Ireland social security arrangements where the recipient is resident in the UK.

In the same item of business

6. Jeremy Balfour (Lothian) (Ind) Ind
To ask the Scottish Government whether regulations rectifying the oversight whereby children in receipt of the Scottish child disability payment were not rec...
The Minister for Public Finance (Ivan McKee) SNP
The Visitor Levy (Scotland) Act 2024 Amendment Regulations 2026 were laid in the Scottish Parliament on 9 January 2026. The regulations expand the list of qu...
Jeremy Balfour Ind
I thank the minister for that clarification and for all the work that he and his team have done to get the regulations on board. The regulations will make a ...
The Deputy Presiding Officer (Annabelle Ewing) SNP
I am not entirely sure that there was a question in there, but I am sure that you will find something to say, minister.
Ivan McKee SNP
Jeremy Balfour’s comments are a testament to what can be done when there is a constructive working relationship across the Parliament to deliver for the peop...
Pam Duncan-Glancy (Glasgow) (Ind) Ind
The regulations are a good example of how the extra costs that disabled people face can be addressed through initiatives that Governments bring in. Does the ...
Ivan McKee SNP
We took those steps on the visitor levy because we believed that that was the right thing to do, for the reasons that Pam Duncan-Glancy highlighted. I am sur...