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Meeting of the Parliament 25 March 2026 [Draft]

25 Mar 2026 · S6 · Meeting of the Parliament
Item of business
Portfolio Question Time
Community Right to Buy Review
MacGregor, Fulton SNP Coatbridge and Chryston Watch on SPTV

The existing processes have achieved a lot, in revitalising parts of Scotland through community right to buy mechanisms, but those processes ask a lot of the groups that put forward proposals. What are the cabinet secretary’s views on how that process can be made easier and on how genuine mistakes that are made by the council, private owners or others can be made to carry no final consequences for the process?

Presiding Officer, as this is her last portfolio question, I put on record my best wishes to my good friend Mairi Gougeon, who started with me in 2016. I wish her all the best for the future, and I know that she will be sorely missed by our national Parliament—although perhaps that is not as sore as my legs were when we went for a run during our first session. I took a long time to recover from that.

In the same item of business

8. Fulton MacGregor (Coatbridge and Chryston) (SNP) SNP
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the community right to buy review. (S6O-05700)
The Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs, Land Reform and Islands (Mairi Gougeon) SNP
The Scottish Government accepts the review and its recommendations for improvements to community rights to buy, and I am grateful to all who took the time to...
Fulton MacGregor SNP
The existing processes have achieved a lot, in revitalising parts of Scotland through community right to buy mechanisms, but those processes ask a lot of the...
Mairi Gougeon SNP
I thank Fulton MacGregor for those kind comments. Some of my favourite memories are from those early days when we came to the Parliament together and served ...
Mercedes Villalba (North East Scotland) (Lab) Lab
How will the recommendations in the community right to buy review strengthen existing mechanisms or create new support mechanisms so that more communities ca...
Mairi Gougeon SNP
I thank Mercedes Villalba for her interest in the topic. As has been highlighted in the review report, delivering on some of its recommendations would need p...
The Deputy Presiding Officer (Liam McArthur) LD
That concludes portfolio questions on rural affairs, land reform and islands. There will be a brief pause before we move to the next item.