The Scottish Government published its Budget 2023-24 in December 2022. In advance of this, our Committee undertook pre-budget scrutiny to influence the Scottish Government’s thinking when preparing this budget.
The Committee was interested in how the Scottish Government makes sure equality considerations are enshrined in the budget process and are used to inform tax and spending decisions.
Response to the call for views helped inform the pre-budget scrutiny by the Committee and oral evidence sessions.
The Scottish Government published a number of fiscal documents in May 2022 relevant to the committee’s pre-budget scrutiny, namely—
In its budget scrutiny work this year, the Committee also considered the work undertaken by the SPICe Research Fellow, Rob Watts, looking at human rights budgeting and its application in the year-round budget process.
Thank you to everyone who responded to our call for views.
Read the summary of responses (307KB, pdf) posted 02 November 2022
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