Finance and Public Administration Committee
The Committee was established in June 2021. It focuses on:
- Scotland’s public finances
- public service reform
- the National Performance Framework
- public administration in government.
Next meeting of the committee
Start time:
9:30am, Tuesday 20 May 2025
Location: T4.60-CR6 The Livingstone Room
Agenda:
- The Scottish budget process in practice
- Cost-effectiveness of Scottish public inquiries
- Work programme (in private)
Future meetings of the committee
The Finance and Public Administration Committee usually meets weekly on Tuesdays.
Previous meetings of the committee
Work of the Committee
Current work
Cost-effectiveness of Scottish public inquiries
Inquiry into the Scottish Government's Public Service Reform programme
Inquiry into the Scottish budget process in practice
Intergovernmental Relations: Finance and Written Agreements
Interparliamentary Finance Committee Forum
Scrutiny of Financial Memorandums
Completed work
Aggregates Tax and Devolved Taxes Administration (Scotland) Bill
Budget (Scotland) (No. 2) Bill
Budget (Scotland) (No. 3) Bill
Budget (Scotland) (No. 4) Bill
Budget (Scotland) Bill
Budget Scrutiny 2022-23
Budget Scrutiny 2023-24
Budget Scrutiny 2024-25
Budget Scrutiny 2025-26
Children and Young People (Scotland) Bill: Post-legislative scrutiny of the 2013 Financial Memorandum
Framework for the Resource Spending Review
Inquiry into Public Administration - Effective Scottish Government decision-making
Medium Term Financial Strategy Review
National Performance Framework: Ambitions into Action
National Performance Framework: Inquiry into proposed National Outcomes
Pre-Budget Scrutiny 2022-23: Scotland's public finances in 2022-23 and the impact of COVID-19
Pre-Budget Scrutiny 2023-24: Scotland's public finances in 2023-24: the impact of the cost of living and public service reform
Pre-Budget Scrutiny 2024-25: The Sustainability of Scotland's Finances
Pre-Budget Scrutiny 2025-26: Managing Scotland's Public Finances: A Strategic Approach
Replacing EU Structural Funds in Scotland
Scotland's Commissioner Landscape: A Strategic Approach
Scottish Fiscal Framework: Independent Report and Review
The Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (Green Freeports Relief) (Scotland) Order 2023 (SSI 2023/Draft)
Correspondence
Correspondence
Finance and Public Administration Committee
16 May 2025
Letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government to the Convener of 16 May 2025
Finance and Public Administration Committee
Right to Addiction Recovery (Scotland) Bill Financial Memorandum - Letter of 15 May 2025
15 May 2025
Letter from the Convener to the Convener of the Health, Social Care and Sport Committee of 15 May 2025
Finance and Public Administration Committee
14 May 2025
Letter from the Convener to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government of 14 May 2025
Official Reports of meetings
Official Reports of meetings
Meeting date: Tuesday, May 6, 2025
Finance and Public Administration Committee
Scottish Budget Process in Practice
Meeting date: Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Finance and Public Administration Committee
Scottish Budget Process in Practice, Scottish Fiscal Commission (Fiscal Sustainability Report), Subordinate Legislation
Meeting date: Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Finance and Public Administration Committee
Scottish Budget Process in Practice
Meeting date: Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Finance and Public Administration Committee
Scottish Budget Process in Practice, Scottish Fiscal Commission
Meeting date: Tuesday, March 18, 2025
Finance and Public Administration Committee
Public Administration in the Scottish Government
Meeting date: Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Finance and Public Administration Committee
Right to Addiction Recovery (Scotland) Bill: Financial Memorandum, Subordinate Legislation
Meeting date: Tuesday, March 4, 2025
Finance and Public Administration Committee
Subordinate Legislation
Meeting date: Tuesday, February 18, 2025
Finance and Public Administration Committee
Budget Scrutiny 2025-26, Budget (Scotland) (No 4) Bill: Stage 2
Meeting date: Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Finance and Public Administration Committee
Budget Scrutiny 2025-26
Meeting date: Tuesday, January 7, 2025
Finance and Public Administration Committee
Subordinate Legislation, Budget Scrutiny 2025-26
Reports
Committee reports
A report on the Finance and Public Administration Committee's consideration of the Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (Group Relief and Sub-sale Development Relief Modifications) (Scotland) Order 2025 [draft]
A report on the Finance and Public Administration Committee's consideration of the Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (Part 2 Further Extension) Order 2025 [draft]
Committee 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 the National Performance Framework within the responsibilities of the Deputy First Minister, public service reform within the responsibility of the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government, and public administration.
Current Members
Kenneth Gibson
Convener
Scottish National Party
Michael Marra
Deputy Convener
Scottish Labour
Ross Greer
Member
Scottish Green Party
Craig Hoy
Member
Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
John Mason
Member
Independent
Liz Smith
Member
Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Michelle Thomson
Member
Scottish National Party
Full details of committee membership, including substitute and previous members