Due to its volume, the requested data regarding the Private Rented Sector Landlord Loan Scheme has been placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre bib number 64462.

Due to its volume, the requested data regarding the Private Rented Sector Landlord Loan Scheme has been placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre bib number 64462.

Due to its volume, the requested data regarding the Private Rented Sector Landlord Loan Scheme has been placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre bib number 64462.

Due to its volume, the requested data regarding the Private Rented Sector Landlord Loan Scheme has been placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre bib number 64462.

Following a successful pilot, COPFS commenced the Custody Deaths Unit (CDU) on 1 August 2022.

The Unit investigates all deaths in legal custody, including deaths in police custody.

The establishment of a dedicated unit will ensure further improvements in the quality and effectiveness of such investigations, prosecutions and FAIs and consistency of process throughout the country.

The current legal framework for Drug Checking facilities comes under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 and an amendment to the act in relation to ‘Controlled Drugs’ which provides authorisation via the use of a license. The license can be applied for through the UK Home Office.

Scottish Government Officials will continue to work with Home Office colleagues as license applications from the proposed pilot cities progress. Police Scotland have also been involved in this work, alongside Crown Office.

The Medicines Act 1986 is governed by the UK Parliament. This means that any legislative changes in relation to the act are fully reserved to the UK Government and its ministers.

However, continuing the work done to make naloxone more widely available during the COVID-19 pandemic, Scottish Government officials are engaged with both COPFS and colleagues in the UK Office for Health Improvement and Disparities to ensure that those changes remain in place in Scotland. Following the 2021 consultation carried out by the UK Government into expanding the access to naloxone, Scottish Government officials are working with UK Government colleagues to push for amendments in current legislation at a UK level to ensure those changes introduced in Scotland are made permanent.

The Scottish Government facilitated discussions between Glasgow Health and Social Care Partnership and Police Scotland, both of whom input into the proposal, which was developed by Glasgow HSCP, for a Safer Drug Consumption Facility prior to it being sent to COPFS.

Further to the recommendation of the Drug Death Taskforce we are continuing to work with the UK Government and other devolved administrations regarding the expansion of access to drug paraphernalia.

This includes the provision of smoking inhalation devices which have been seen as an essential harm reduction tool for those smoking crack cocaine. The distribution of these devices would require an amendment to the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971. As this legislation is reserved, such an amendment is not within the competence of the Scottish Parliament.

The Lord Advocate provided specific parameters, which were set out in a statement on 3 November 2021, it stipulated in order for a new proposal to be considered it would need to be precise, detailed and specific, which was underpinned by evidence and supported by those who would be responsible for policing such a facility, and by Police Scotland.

The current proposal, as developed by Glasgow Health and Social Care Partnership, is only for a site within Glasgow.