{"links":{"self":"https://petitions.parliament.scot/petitions.json?state=under_consideration","first":"https://petitions.parliament.scot/petitions.json?state=under_consideration","last":"https://petitions.parliament.scot/petitions.json?page=6&state=under_consideration","next":"https://petitions.parliament.scot/petitions.json?page=2&state=under_consideration","prev":null},"data":[{"type":"petition","pe_number":"PE2291","links":{"self":"https://petitions.parliament.scot/petitions/PE2291.json"},"attributes":{"title":"Introduce statutory metrics to define disproportionate Business Improvement District levies","summary":"Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to amend the regulations under the Planning etc. (Scotland) Act 2006 to introduce explicit statutory metrics, numeric tolerances, and comparative examples that legally define a \"significantly disproportionate financial burden\" within the Business Improvement District (BID) framework, thereby empowering and mandating local authorities to exercise their statutory veto powers if a proposed BID levy structure places an inequitable financial strain on low rateable value properties.","background_information":"Section 42(3) of the Planning etc. (Scotland) Act 2006 lets councils veto a BID ballot if it creates an unfair burden. This safeguard is non-functional because the law lacks mathematical metrics, leaving councils legally exposed.\r\n\r\nProposers win ballots by offering deeply discounted levies to high rateable value (RV) corporate properties to secure their votes. This shifts severe strain onto small businesses. Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe) data exposes this distortion:\r\n\r\n•\tFort William BID: Small properties paid 2.38%–6.66% of RV; a £1.1M corporate entity paid just 0.279%.\r\n•\tVisit Moray & Speyside: Small businesses paid up to 12.5% of RV; a £6.9M property paid a token 0.05%.\r\n\r\nAggressive debt enforcement by Sheriff Officers causes severe trauma to local traders. Since 2006, 19 BIDs have stopped and 12 failed their ballot. The Scottish Government must introduce objective statutory metrics to empower councils to veto unfair levy distributions before ballots occur.\r\n","petitioner":"Gavin Templeton","status":"under_consideration","signature_count":17,"created_at":"2026-09-30T10:10:03.205Z","updated_at":"2026-10-15T20:02:27.000Z","rejected_at":null,"opened_at":"2026-10-15T09:08:23.107Z","under_consideration_at":"2026-10-15T09:08:23.107Z","closed_at":null,"archived_at":null,"submitted_on_paper":false,"submitted_on":null,"creator_name":"Gavin Templeton","rejection":null,"topics":[]}},{"type":"petition","pe_number":"PE2290","links":{"self":"https://petitions.parliament.scot/petitions/PE2290.json"},"attributes":{"title":"Expand provision of Gaelic Learner Education in all Scottish local authorities ","summary":"Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to expand the provision of Gaelic Learner Education in all Scottish local authorities so it ensures that all young people have the opportunity to learn Gaelic regardless of where they live. Expanding provision would make learning Gaelic more accessible across the country for all learners. ","background_information":"I am creating this petition as an MSYP (Member of the Scottish Youth Parliament) for East Lothian after consulting with my young people in East Lothian and across Scotland. I believe that your postcode should not play a role in the language that you learn. Many young people across Scotland want to learn Gaelic but have told me that the lack of provision across constituencies has created a barrier to having the opportunity to learn. ","petitioner":"Summer Ramsay","status":"under_consideration","signature_count":10,"created_at":"2026-09-28T10:23:14.569Z","updated_at":"2026-10-15T17:53:37.000Z","rejected_at":null,"opened_at":"2026-10-15T09:07:45.009Z","under_consideration_at":"2026-10-15T09:07:45.009Z","closed_at":null,"archived_at":null,"submitted_on_paper":false,"submitted_on":null,"creator_name":"Summer Ramsay","rejection":null,"topics":[]}},{"type":"petition","pe_number":"PE2289","links":{"self":"https://petitions.parliament.scot/petitions/PE2289.json"},"attributes":{"title":"Review crisis intervention and safety measures on Scotland’s bridges","summary":"Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to strengthen crisis intervention and safety measures on Scotland’s bridges by commissioning an independent national review of crisis identification and intervention on high-risk bridges; establishing minimum standards for monitoring, emergency response times and staff training; requiring bridge operators to assess and introduce evidence-based physical safety measures; and publishing national guidance for preventing deaths at bridges.","background_information":"A young person died after entering the River Tay from the Tay Road Bridge during an apparent crisis. This raised serious concerns about how quickly visible distress is recognised, when emergency services are contacted, the training provided to bridge staff, and whether monitoring without effective physical safeguards is sufficient. Bridge operators currently appear able to apply different approaches to crisis prevention and intervention. Scotland needs consistent, evidence-based standards covering risk assessment, physical barriers and other preventive measures, active monitoring, staff training, emergency protocols, response recording and independent review after a death or serious incident. The review should involve bereaved families, clinicians, suicide-prevention specialists, emergency services and bridge operators. National guidance would help ensure that a person visibly in crisis receives the earliest possible intervention, regardless of which bridge they are on.","petitioner":"Lisa Birkett on behalf of Walk with Phoenix","status":"under_consideration","signature_count":1,"created_at":"2026-09-15T19:26:49.974Z","updated_at":"2026-10-15T11:29:12.687Z","rejected_at":null,"opened_at":"2026-10-15T09:07:20.014Z","under_consideration_at":"2026-10-15T09:07:20.014Z","closed_at":null,"archived_at":null,"submitted_on_paper":false,"submitted_on":null,"creator_name":"Lisa Birkett on behalf of Walk with Phoenix","rejection":null,"topics":[]}},{"type":"petition","pe_number":"PE2288","links":{"self":"https://petitions.parliament.scot/petitions/PE2288.json"},"attributes":{"title":"Introduce measures to protect pupils with allergies","summary":"Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to introduce mandatory allergy safety measures in all Scottish schools, including whole-school allergy policies, individual healthcare plans for pupils with allergies, staff training in allergy and anaphylaxis, and access to spare adrenaline auto-injectors. ","background_information":"Allergy is the most common chronic condition in children, affecting around two pupils in every Scottish classroom. Yet my FOI research found fewer than 1 in 20 Scottish schools had all four recommended allergy safeguards: 49% had no allergy policy, only 8% held spare adrenaline auto-injectors and nearly a third provided no allergy training. This leaves children dependent on where they go to school.\r\n\r\nSince my previous petition, England has acted. Following the campaign for Benedict’s Law, schools in England now have statutory allergy guidance requiring stronger, consistent arrangements including allergy policies, staff training and individual healthcare planning.\r\n\r\nScottish children face the same allergies and the same risk of anaphylaxis. There is no reason they should receive less protection because of where in the UK they go to school. Scotland now has both the evidence of the problem and a workable model for change.\r\n","petitioner":"Helen Blythe","status":"under_consideration","signature_count":1,"created_at":"2026-09-09T14:30:09.350Z","updated_at":"2026-10-15T11:28:55.832Z","rejected_at":null,"opened_at":"2026-10-15T09:06:18.819Z","under_consideration_at":"2026-10-15T09:06:18.819Z","closed_at":null,"archived_at":null,"submitted_on_paper":false,"submitted_on":null,"creator_name":"Helen Blythe","rejection":null,"topics":[]}},{"type":"petition","pe_number":"PE2287","links":{"self":"https://petitions.parliament.scot/petitions/PE2287.json"},"attributes":{"title":"Recognise Covid-19 vaccine injury and create appropriate NHS pathways","summary":"Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to recognise people injured by Covid-19 vaccinations and, building on closed petition PE2086, establish NHS Scotland pathways for their assessment, diagnosis and treatment, including clinical guidance, specialist referral routes, data collection and public reporting.","background_information":"PE2086 (Recognise the vaccine injured and offer appropriate treatment)\r\n was considered in Session 6 of the Scottish Parliament and closed on 10 December 2025. The petition asked the Scottish Government to acknowledge people injured after Covid-19 vaccination and to have the NHS offer treatment. That recognition was not given, and no national pathway followed.\r\n\r\nThis session 7 petition asks the new Parliament to secure both. The Association for Vaccine Injury in Scotland (AVIS, SC054202) still hears from people who say they are unrecognised as someone injured by the Covid-19 vaccine and cannot get NHS assessment or care. In 2026 AVIS engaged NHS Lanarkshire, a board that delivered the vaccination programme. After a February meeting, written replies and a Stage 1 complaint on 1 April 2026, there was still no acknowledgement, pathway, referral route or clinic. This is a national issue. The Government should recognise the injured and publish relevant NHS pathways.\r\n","petitioner":"William Queen on behalf the Association  for Vaccine Injury in Scotland","status":"under_consideration","signature_count":228,"created_at":"2026-08-31T11:21:03.722Z","updated_at":"2026-10-15T20:51:27.000Z","rejected_at":null,"opened_at":"2026-10-14T10:04:04.255Z","under_consideration_at":"2026-10-14T10:04:04.255Z","closed_at":null,"archived_at":null,"submitted_on_paper":false,"submitted_on":null,"creator_name":"William Queen on behalf the Association  for Vaccine Injury in Scotland","rejection":null,"topics":[]}},{"type":"petition","pe_number":"PE2286","links":{"self":"https://petitions.parliament.scot/petitions/PE2286.json"},"attributes":{"title":"Make the Care Inspectorate responsible for services for children in care ","summary":"Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to make the Care Inspectorate legally responsible for supervising social work departments, foster carers and children's care homes and give it powers to investigate complaints from family members in relation to any child in care. Within legislation, give parents and other family members/supporters the power to complain on behalf of the child in care without the need for mandates from the child. Give the Care Inspectorate powers to sanction social works/councils and providers of care in care. ","background_information":"Children's Hearings place children on compulsory supervision orders whereby children are placed in care, which can be with family, relatives, foster carers or children's homes. Once under the supervision of social workers, no statutory body can supervise children in care programs/services. Children can be under social work services from birth to the age of 25 years. Appeals against a Children's Hearing decision are through the Sheriff Court and are extremely difficult and expensive. 40% of children have additional support needs – something I believe is not considered by social workers when arranging children’s placements.  \r\n\r\nComplaints can be made against individual social workers through the Scottish Social Services Council. There is no system to holistically investigate and supervise social workers' children's services. Statistics show that of children who have been in care 25% are unemployed, homeless or dead by 25. I believe that social work departments who are responsible for children’s care are not supervised or controlled. ","petitioner":"James A Mackie","status":"under_consideration","signature_count":14,"created_at":"2026-08-29T13:30:48.857Z","updated_at":"2026-10-15T16:36:47.000Z","rejected_at":null,"opened_at":"2026-10-14T10:03:21.952Z","under_consideration_at":"2026-10-14T10:03:21.952Z","closed_at":null,"archived_at":null,"submitted_on_paper":false,"submitted_on":null,"creator_name":"James A Mackie","rejection":null,"topics":[]}},{"type":"petition","pe_number":"PE2285","links":{"self":"https://petitions.parliament.scot/petitions/PE2285.json"},"attributes":{"title":"Install driver location signs at 500-metre intervals on motorways and major A roads","summary":"Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to evaluate and implement a standardised system of high visibility motorway location signs, similar to those deployed at 500 metre intervals on English motorways. These boards provide clear positional information essential for incident reporting, emergency response, and operational management.","background_information":"In England, motorways such as the M6, and the M1, as well as some A roads, have a series of location signs, placed at 500m-intervals. These are considered essential in emergencies where the emergency services need a precise location. \r\n\r\nSome motorways in Scotland have small marker posts with similar chainage numbers to the English signs but have no carriageway indicators or motorway numbers. These small posts are often missing or broken and the numbers on them are too small for many people to read. This cannot be considered safe and acceptable.\r\n\r\nIt is not possible for people to rely solely on Google Maps or Junction numbers to determine their location. The phone signal may be patchy, or the person’s mobile phone may run out of battery. Junctions are also spaced too irregularly and are too far apart to be helpful for locating breakdowns, particularly on rural roads.\r\n","petitioner":"Daniel Tennant","status":"under_consideration","signature_count":2,"created_at":"2026-08-24T13:26:31.940Z","updated_at":"2026-10-15T11:27:19.202Z","rejected_at":null,"opened_at":"2026-10-14T10:02:45.361Z","under_consideration_at":"2026-10-14T10:02:45.361Z","closed_at":null,"archived_at":null,"submitted_on_paper":false,"submitted_on":null,"creator_name":"Daniel Tennant","rejection":null,"topics":[]}},{"type":"petition","pe_number":"PE2284","links":{"self":"https://petitions.parliament.scot/petitions/PE2284.json"},"attributes":{"title":"Criminalise the denial of emergency accommodation and statutory homelessness rights in Scotland","summary":"Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to amend the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 and the relevant Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act to make the intentional denial of statutory emergency accommodation, bureaucratic sabotage, and deceptive refusal techniques (commonly known as \"gatekeeping\" or \"gaslighting\" applicants) a specific criminal offence. This legislation must introduce personal criminal liability and mandatory prison sentences for both senior council officials who direct these policies and individual housing officers who execute them.","background_information":"Local Authorities in Scotland mass-sabotage the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 by systemically denying vulnerable people their statutory right to emergency accommodation. Housing officers routinely engage in deceptive gatekeeping, falsely telling applicants they are not homeless if they have a non-viable address or tenancy.\r\n\r\nBecause this is currently treated as an administrative failure rather than a crime, there are no deterrents. Judicial Review only forces the council to resolve individual cases, while systemic failure continues. This gross, state-sanctioned negligence directly leads to severe psychological trauma, destitution, and rough sleeping.\r\n\r\nAdministrative and financial penalties fail, as they only drain the public purse further. The only way to stop this gross systemic human rights violation is through the criminalisation of these actions. If a public official intentionally denies life-saving accommodation, it must be treated as a serious crime punishable by imprisonment.\r\n","petitioner":"Denis Kaban Zloy","status":"under_consideration","signature_count":2,"created_at":"2026-08-24T00:40:05.022Z","updated_at":"2026-10-15T12:37:47.000Z","rejected_at":null,"opened_at":"2026-10-14T10:02:03.275Z","under_consideration_at":"2026-10-14T10:02:03.275Z","closed_at":null,"archived_at":null,"submitted_on_paper":false,"submitted_on":null,"creator_name":"Denis Kaban Zloy","rejection":null,"topics":[]}},{"type":"petition","pe_number":"PE2283","links":{"self":"https://petitions.parliament.scot/petitions/PE2283.json"},"attributes":{"title":"Introduce Recording and Publication of MSP Attendance and Constituency Activity","summary":"Calling on the Scottish Parliament to introduce a system requiring MSPs’ attendance at debates and committees, as well as constituency activity such as surgeries and casework volumes, to be formally recorded and published annually, ensuring transparency and accountability in parliamentary duties.","background_information":"At present, MSPs are not obliged to attend Parliament, and no central attendance records are kept. Attendance is managed privately by party whips, whose lists are not published. Constituency activity is left to each MSP’s discretion, with no independent measure of workload distribution or engagement. Committee minutes do record attendance, proving that such transparency is possible, yet chamber attendance and constituency casework remain hidden. This leaves constituents unable to verify whether their representatives are present and active, even as MSPs may hold second jobs, deliver paid talks, or cite overwhelming correspondence. The House of Lords recently revealed that over 100 peers failed to meet minimum attendance thresholds, underlining the risks of leaving attendance unenforced. Scotland has an opportunity to lead by example by adopting a modern, evidence based transparency model that records MSP attendance, constituency surgeries, and casework activity, and publishes this annually to strengthen accountability and public trust.","petitioner":"Philip Riddell","status":"under_consideration","signature_count":11,"created_at":"2026-09-18T07:49:02.487Z","updated_at":"2026-10-15T18:06:27.000Z","rejected_at":null,"opened_at":"2026-10-12T10:57:30.739Z","under_consideration_at":"2026-10-12T10:57:30.739Z","closed_at":null,"archived_at":null,"submitted_on_paper":false,"submitted_on":null,"creator_name":"Philip Riddell","rejection":null,"topics":[]}},{"type":"petition","pe_number":"PE2282","links":{"self":"https://petitions.parliament.scot/petitions/PE2282.json"},"attributes":{"title":"Accelerate a Unified NHS Scotland Patient Record System, Share Data and Save Lives","summary":"Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to accelerate the implementation of the Digital Health and Care Record (DHCR) and to introduce interim measures for specific conditions, such as blood cancer, to improve the sharing and accessibility of patient data for multi-disciplinary teams, including test results, imaging and previous treatments, across all 14 territorial health boards until the DHRC is implemented, to strengthen patient safety and reduce the risk of harm.","background_information":"NHS Scotland remains digitally fragmented, with different health boards using different systems. For patients with complex, rare or life-threatening conditions, whose care may involve specialists and hospitals across several regions, access to complete and current medical information is critical.\r\n\r\nMy late daughter Sarah was treated by 7 hospitals across 3 NHS regions during her illness with a rare non-Hodgkin Lymphoma. Sarah was failed by the system, information was not shared, mistakes happened and her life taken too soon.\r\n\r\nBut this is bigger than my family's experience. Clinicians should not rely on phone calls, emails, letters or manual transfers to piece together vital information held elsewhere in NHS Scotland.\r\n\r\nUntil Scotland has a mandatory unified, interoperable system where authorised clinicians can securely access the information they need, interim measures are urgently required. These will help to reduce delays, improve continuity of care and protect patients from avoidable harm.","petitioner":"Kareen Howden","status":"under_consideration","signature_count":958,"created_at":"2026-09-05T14:20:29.980Z","updated_at":"2026-10-15T20:21:07.000Z","rejected_at":null,"opened_at":"2026-10-12T10:57:00.456Z","under_consideration_at":"2026-10-12T10:57:00.456Z","closed_at":null,"archived_at":null,"submitted_on_paper":false,"submitted_on":null,"creator_name":"Kareen Howden","rejection":null,"topics":[]}},{"type":"petition","pe_number":"PE2281","links":{"self":"https://petitions.parliament.scot/petitions/PE2281.json"},"attributes":{"title":"Introduce statutory regulation and protection of title for electricians in Scotland","summary":"Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to regulate the electrical industry and protect the title “Electrician” to ensure those carrying out electrical work are properly qualified, competent and accountable.","background_information":"Electrical safety is fundamental to protecting people, homes and businesses. However, there is currently no statutory regulation of electricians in Scotland and the title “electrician” is not protected or defined in legislation.\r\n\r\nCurrently. anyone can describe themselves as an electrician without demonstrating they hold appropriate qualifications, skills or experience. This creates risks for consumers and public safety, as poorly carried out electrical work can result in serious harm and financial consequences. \r\n\r\nAs Scotland moves towards net zero, electrical technologies and systems will play an increasingly important role in meeting future government policy objectives. Ensuring electrical work is carried out by appropriately qualified and competent professionals is therefore more important than ever.\r\n\r\nWe are calling on the Scottish Government to introduce statutory regulation and protection of title, providing greater consumer confidence, improving safety and ensuring electricians meet appropriate standards of competence.\r\n","petitioner":"Yvonne Wilson on behalf of SELECT","status":"under_consideration","signature_count":884,"created_at":"2026-08-20T16:17:53.978Z","updated_at":"2026-10-15T20:12:57.000Z","rejected_at":null,"opened_at":"2026-10-12T10:55:53.432Z","under_consideration_at":"2026-10-12T10:55:53.432Z","closed_at":null,"archived_at":null,"submitted_on_paper":false,"submitted_on":null,"creator_name":"Yvonne Wilson on behalf of SELECT","rejection":null,"topics":[]}},{"type":"petition","pe_number":"PE2280","links":{"self":"https://petitions.parliament.scot/petitions/PE2280.json"},"attributes":{"title":"Transition the Scottish Welfare Fund to Annually Managed Expenditure Financing","summary":"Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to transition the SWF to a demand-led, AME framework. Using devolved powers under the Scotland Act 2016, SWF Crisis and Community Care Grants must become an unconditional statutory entitlement. This ensures no council can reject valid claims due to budget exhaustion or arbitrary priority criteria, and abolishes the three-application annual limit on Crisis Grants. We must end postcode lotteries where support depends on postcode. Dignity and survival are human rights, not discretionary gifts.","background_information":"SWF is broken. Councils systematically sabotage emergency aid via arbitrary restrictions. Authorities ration help through punitive \"priority tiers\", ensuring constant rejections. When approved, councils award insultingly low, derisory amounts, stripping people of dignity.\r\n\r\nUnder the Scotland Act 2016, social security is fully devolved. Holyrood has absolute power to reclassify SWF into a centralized, demand-led Annually Managed Expenditure (AME) framework. We demand the Government apply this non-capped model, legally prohibit councils from using budget-driven criteria and repeal the three-grant annual limit.\r\n\r\nCrucially, the law must mandate that final financial awards are determined strictly by the applicant's self-assessed crisis costs, ending the power of councils to slash grants or issue insufficient sums. Holyrood must permanently establish a demand-led welfare delivery that protects every single citizen across Scotland with absolute dignity throughout our sovereign nation today.","petitioner":"Sviatoslav Rozenko","status":"under_consideration","signature_count":3,"created_at":"2026-07-06T11:19:47.354Z","updated_at":"2026-10-15T11:31:33.269Z","rejected_at":null,"opened_at":"2026-10-12T10:55:02.634Z","under_consideration_at":"2026-10-12T10:55:02.634Z","closed_at":null,"archived_at":null,"submitted_on_paper":false,"submitted_on":null,"creator_name":"Sviatoslav Rozenko","rejection":null,"topics":[]}},{"type":"petition","pe_number":"PE2279","links":{"self":"https://petitions.parliament.scot/petitions/PE2279.json"},"attributes":{"title":"Create equal mesh care pathways for all mesh-injured patients in Scotland","summary":"Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to introduce equal specialist mesh care pathways for all patients harmed by surgical mesh, including gynaecological, hernia, bowel and all other mesh procedures, and for the adoption of the BRAN model (Benefits, Risks, Alternatives and doing Nothing) as the national standard for informed consent across NHS Scotland, alongside stronger accountability measures to ensure patients harmed by healthcare decisions receive truth, transparency and fair representation.","background_information":"Surgical mesh is widely used in procedures such as hernia, bowel and pelvic repair. While Scotland has introduced specialist services following concerns surrounding transvaginal mesh, many patients harmed by hernia, bowel, pelvic and other mesh procedures still report unequal access to specialist diagnostics, treatment and support.\r\n\r\nMany patients are living with chronic pain, nerve damage, autoimmune complications, sexual dysfunction and a significantly reduced quality of life, without access to specialist diagnostics, treatment and support.\r\n\r\nThis petition calls for equal specialist mesh care pathways for all mesh-injured patients; multidisciplinary mesh clinics, including psychological support; clinician training in diagnosing mesh complications, native tissue repair techniques and mesh removal; adoption of the BRAN model for informed consent, supported by standardised national patient information leaflets detailing risks, benefits and alternatives to mesh and non-mesh repair; comprehensive data collection and long-term monitoring of mesh complications and outcomes; national clinical guidance on appropriate mesh use, and stronger transparency and accountability when patients are harmed by healthcare decisions.","petitioner":"Roseanna Clarkin, Martin O'Neill, Lauren McDougall of Scottish Global Mesh Alliance","status":"under_consideration","signature_count":220,"created_at":"2026-05-15T15:42:37.526Z","updated_at":"2026-10-15T20:36:37.000Z","rejected_at":null,"opened_at":"2026-10-12T10:53:51.380Z","under_consideration_at":"2026-10-12T10:53:51.380Z","closed_at":null,"archived_at":null,"submitted_on_paper":false,"submitted_on":null,"creator_name":"Roseanna Clarkin, Martin O'Neill, Lauren McDougall of Scottish Global Mesh Alliance","rejection":null,"topics":[]}},{"type":"petition","pe_number":"PE2278","links":{"self":"https://petitions.parliament.scot/petitions/PE2278.json"},"attributes":{"title":"Abolish Student Debt and Replace SAAS Maintenance Loans with Living Cost Grants ","summary":"Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to completely abolish the student loan system and establish non-repayable maintenance grants pegged the National Living Wage. Using devolved powers over higher education and student support under the Education (Scotland) Act 1980 and the Scotland Act 1998, the Government must replace all Student Awards Agency Scotland (SAAS) living-cost loans with direct state grants, eliminate humiliating household means-testing for essential support, and guarantee a debt-free education for all Scottish students. ","background_information":"Scotland's free tuition claim is a myth. While tuition is covered, higher education has become a predatory debt engine. SAAS forces working-class students to borrow up to £10,400 annually just to survive, while maximum non-repayable bursaries are capped at a derisory £2,000 under humiliating means-testing. Extortionate private rents and living costs inflict severe financial distress and mental trauma on young adults. Forcing the next generation to mortgage their futures for a degree while local councils and landlords exploit them is a catastrophic systemic failure. Higher education finance is 100% devolved.  \r\n\r\nI demand the Government immediately: \r\n\r\n1. Abolish the SAAS loan framework, converting all living-cost support into non-repayable grants. \r\n2. End parent means-testing; aid must be an unconditional individual right. \r\n3. Raise maintenance grants to match the full National Living Wage, with dedicated accommodation cost coverage. \r\n\r\nStop exploiting youth; secure a debt-free future now. ","petitioner":"Apostle Voron","status":"under_consideration","signature_count":5,"created_at":"2026-07-06T00:40:00.135Z","updated_at":"2026-10-14T21:48:47.000Z","rejected_at":null,"opened_at":"2026-10-07T08:58:36.292Z","under_consideration_at":"2026-10-07T08:58:36.292Z","closed_at":null,"archived_at":null,"submitted_on_paper":false,"submitted_on":null,"creator_name":"Apostle Voron","rejection":null,"topics":[]}},{"type":"petition","pe_number":"PE2277","links":{"self":"https://petitions.parliament.scot/petitions/PE2277.json"},"attributes":{"title":"Recognise ageing as a disease and launch a National Longevity Mission","summary":"Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to recognise biological ageing as a treatable medical condition in NHS Scotland policy, and, in doing so, create a National Longevity Mission with a funded Nanomedicine Authority to deliver clinical trials for senolytics and age-reversal therapies, fulfilling the fundamental duty to protect our people from biological ageing and biological death. We must eradicate biological death to secure a future of absolute health for humanity, deploying clinical Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) to attain Longevity Escape Velocity (LEV).","background_information":"Scotland has Western Europe's lowest life expectancy. Healthy life expectancy has collapsed to 59 years. Scots spend a quarter of life chronically sick. Ageing drives devastating conditions like dementia (£1.4bn/year cost in Scotland; £42bn UK-wide) and NHS collapse. Treating symptoms while ignoring the biological root cause is a catastrophic policy failure. \r\n\r\nGeroscience has moved: human trials validate the use of senolytics, nanomedicine, and domain-specific ASI to arrest cellular degradation. Healthcare and research funding are fully devolved to the Scottish Parliament.\r\n\r\nI demand that the Scottish Government:\r\n\r\n1. Amends the Public Health Strategy to reclassify ageing as a modifiable clinical syndrome.\r\n2. Establishes a National Longevity Mission targeting 150 healthy years by 2045 and Longevity Escape Velocity (LEV) by 2032.\r\n3. Establishes and fund the Scottish Nanomedicine and Longevity Authority (£500m/annum) for immediate clinical trials.\r\n","petitioner":"James Bond","status":"under_consideration","signature_count":4,"created_at":"2026-07-19T14:16:24.702Z","updated_at":"2026-10-13T09:38:17.000Z","rejected_at":null,"opened_at":"2026-10-07T08:56:28.256Z","under_consideration_at":"2026-10-07T08:56:28.256Z","closed_at":null,"archived_at":null,"submitted_on_paper":false,"submitted_on":null,"creator_name":"James Bond","rejection":null,"topics":[]}}]}