Chamber
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
How will the recommendations in the community right to buy review strengthen existing mechanisms or create new support mechanisms so that more communities can take ownership of their land? Is it likely that an amending bill will be needed, next session?
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.