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Chamber and committees

Finance and Public Administration Committee

The Committee was established in June 2021. It focuses on:

Next meeting

33rd Meeting, 2023

Agenda: Budget Scrutiny 2024-25: UK context, Work programme

09:30am, 12 December 2023

TG.40-CR1 The Burns Room

Get in touch

If you want to get in touch, you can contact Joanne McNaughton, the Clerk for the committee.

Address: The Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh, EH99 1SP

Phone: 0131 3485978 Find out about call charges.

Twitter: @SP_FinancePAC

If you're appearing as a witness at a committee, take a look at our witness guide for more information.

Members

Members of the Finance and Public Administration Committee

Current Members

Kenneth Gibson

Convener

Party: Scottish National Party

MSP for: Cunninghame North (Constituency)

Michael Marra

Deputy Convener

Party: Scottish Labour

MSP for: North East Scotland (Region)

Ross Greer

Member

Party: Scottish Green Party

MSP for: West Scotland (Region)

Party: Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party

MSP for: Highlands and Islands (Region)

John Mason

Member

Party: Scottish National Party

MSP for: Glasgow Shettleston (Constituency)

Liz Smith

Member

Party: Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party

MSP for: Mid Scotland and Fife (Region)

Party: Scottish National Party

MSP for: Falkirk East (Constituency)

Substitute Members

Murdo Fraser

Substitute Member

Party: Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party

MSP for: Mid Scotland and Fife (Region)

Daniel Johnson

Substitute Member

Party: Scottish Labour

MSP for: Edinburgh Southern (Constituency)

Gillian Mackay

Substitute Member

Party: Scottish Green Party

MSP for: Central Scotland (Region)

Audrey Nicoll

Substitute Member

Party: Scottish National Party

MSP for: Aberdeen South and North Kincardine (Constituency)

Committee work

Current

Previous

Correspondence

Committee correspondence

Finance and Public Administration Committee

Budget - Block Grant Adjustments - Letter of 6 December 2023

Letter from the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Finance to the Convener of 6 December 2023

Finance and Public Administration Committee

Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill and attendance at Committee - Letter of 4 December 2023

Letter from the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, UK Government to the Convener of 4 December 2023

Finance and Public Administration Committee

Update on 2023-24 In-Year Budget Changes - Letter of 21 November 2023

Letter from the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Finance to the Convener of 21 November 2023

Official Reports

Official Reports

Meeting date: Tuesday, November 21, 2023

Finance and Public Administration Committee

Interests, Scottish Fiscal Framework: Independent Report and Review

Meeting date: Tuesday, November 14, 2023

Finance and Public Administration Committee

Scottish Fiscal Framework: Independent Report and Review, Scottish Fiscal Framework: Value Added Tax Assignment

Meeting date: Tuesday, November 7, 2023

Finance and Public Administration Committee

Circular Economy (Scotland) Bill: Financial Memorandum, Subordinate Legislation

Meeting date: Tuesday, October 24, 2023

Finance and Public Administration Committee

Circular Economy (Scotland) Bill: Financial Memorandum

Meeting date: Tuesday, September 26, 2023

Finance and Public Administration Committee

National Care Service (Scotland) Bill: Financial Memorandum, Sustainability of Scotland’s Finances

Meeting date: Tuesday, September 12, 2023

Finance and Public Administration Committee

Subordinate Legislation, Public Service Reform Programme

Meeting date: Tuesday, September 5, 2023

Finance and Public Administration Committee

Interests, Scottish Fiscal Commission (Publications), Subordinate Legislation

Reports

Committee reports

30 November 2023

Report on the Financial Memorandum for the Circular Economy (Scotland) Bill

A report by the Finance and Public Administration Committee on the Financial Memorandum for the Circular Economy (Scotland) Bill

20 November 2023

Subordinate Legislation: The Budget (Scotland) Act 2023 Amendment Regulations 2023 [draft]

A report on the Finance and Public Administration Committee's consideration of the Budget (Scotland) Act 2023 Amendment Regulations 2023.

06 November 2023

Pre-Budget Scrutiny 2024-25: The Sustainability of Scotland's Finances

A report on the Finance and Public Administration's Pre-Budget scrutiny on the sustainability of Scotland's finances

Remit

To consider and report on the following (and any additional matter added under Rule 6.1.5A)—

(a) any report or other document containing proposals for, or budgets of, public revenue or expenditure or proposals for the making of a Scottish rate resolution, taking into account any report or recommendations concerning such documents made by any other committee with power to consider such documents or any part of them;

(b) any report made by a committee setting out proposals concerning public revenue or expenditure;

(c) Budget Bills; and

(d) any other matter relating to or affecting the revenue or expenditure of the Scottish Administration or other monies payable into or expenditure payable out of the Scottish Consolidated Fund.

(e) matters relating to public service reform and the National Performance Framework within the responsibilities of the Deputy First Minister and public administration.

2. The Committee may also consider and, where it sees fit, report to the Parliament on the timetable for the Stages of Budget Bills and on the handling of financial business.

3. In these Rules, “public expenditure” means expenditure of the Scottish Administration, other expenditure payable out of the Scottish Consolidated Fund and any other expenditure met out of taxes, charges and other public revenue."