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In April 2023, the Presiding Officer led a delegation to visit the Parliament of Canada in Ottawa and the National Assembly of Québec, alongside taking part in the annual Scotland Week events in New York.
Committee reports
Date published:
28 February 2024
Official Report, 26 September 2023, cols 6, 13 and 27 and written submissions including Scottish Retail Consortium, McDonald's UK and Scottish Grocers' Federation.
Decisions: The Committee agreed to focus its pre-budget scrutiny for 2025-26 on the financial position of integration joint boards, to issue a call for written evidence, and to invite selected stakeholders to give oral evidence after summer recess.
Dear Convener,
Thank you for your letter of 4 February about the letter from the Equality and Human Rights Committee (EHRC) to myself of 26 January.
Since 26 January I have engaged in correspondence with Baroness Falkner of the EHRC which I enclose here.
Introduction
The Scottish Government's overarching ambition for its Fuel Poverty (Target, Definition and Strategy) (Scotland) Bill1Scottish Parliament. (18, June 26). Fuel Poverty (Target, Definition and Strategy) (Scotland) Bill.
The OBR notes that the UK Budget raises taxes “by amounts rising to £26 billion in 2029-30 [, … bringing] the tax take to an all-time high of 38% of GDP in 2030-31”.[1] The OBR also highlights that debt rises as a share of GDP from 95% this year to 96% of GDP by 2030, “twice the debt level of the average advanced economy”.1Office for Budget Responsibility. (2025, November 26).
Committee reports
Date published:
11 December 2017
We have had situations where communities have had to fundraise in order to pay funeral costs up front before people have been able to establish whether they can get assistance with the costs.
Social Security Committee 26 October 2017 [Draft], Suzanne Munday, contrib. 68, http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentar...