Programme for Government 2024-25: Serving Scotland
First Minister John Swinney announced his first Programme for Government on 4 September 2024.
Law and order
Policies
Featured
Community justice strategy: delivery plan
Sets out deliverables which detail the work that will be undertaken to drive improvement nationally towards the aims of the National Strategy for Community Justice.
Scottish Budget
Details of the Scottish Government's spending plans.
Publications
Trusts and Succession (Scotland) Act 2024: letter to delegated powers and law reform committee
14 February 2025
Scottish Government’s Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Bill costs and staffing: EIR release
14 February 2025
Implementation of the 2019 Hague Convention in Scotland: FOI release
14 February 2025
Consultations
Digital assets in Scots private law: consultation
27 November 2024
Tribunals (Scotland) Act 2014 - draft regulations: consultation
30 October 2024
Long-term prisoner release process: consultation analysis
10 October 2024
Statistics and research
Safer Communities and Justice Statistics Monthly Data Report: January 2025
30 January 2025
Short custodial disposals from court and the prison population
23 January 2025
Justice Social Work Statistics in Scotland: 2023-24 – Part 2
21 January 2025
News
New Glasgow prison given go-ahead
New investment to create jobs and support work to cut reoffending.
Lord Justice Clerk appointed
Lord Beckett to succeed Lady Dorrian.
Action to reduce prison population
Legislation to come into force.
People and directorates
Cabinet Secretary and Ministers
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Angela Constance MSP
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Siobhian Brown MSP
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