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Commissioners and Ombudsman
As with costs for other staff groupings, the Officeholders’ 2025-26 budget submissions to the SPCB reflect the impact of both inflation and increases to employers’ National Insurance contributions.
Committee reports
Date published:
20 September 2024
Scrutiny of implementation costs Part 5
The FM states that in 2025-26, the costs on the Scottish Administration for the homelessness prevention provisions are predicted to be £958,000.
This was supported by recommendation 26 of the REC Committee report, which found an "urgent need for an assessment of future demand as well as all associated environmental implications of the farming, fishing and use of cleaner fish".
The Committee believes that, in allowing for remote participation in hybrid meetings, the Parliament is committing to embracing technology to deliver a more inclusive, accessible and equal Parliament in the future.Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee, Official Report, 26 May 2022.
The Regulations were withdrawn and re-laid on 26 February.
The regulations are subject to the affirmative procedure (Rule 10.6) and it is for the Social Security Committee to recommend to Parliament whether they should be approved.
The previous iteration of this briefing (SB 16/26) explored this, and found that taken on the basis that the freeze was intended to compensate for a foregone per annum increase in Council Tax it could be said that the freeze, over the period 2008-09 to 2014-15, was "over-funded".
Would you be able to share it with us? We will do our level best to do that. The information might be in the form of percentages, rather than absolute figures, but we will do our level best to give you as much information as possible.
When it is connected to people saying, “We need to save some money, so we’re going to chuck everybody a wee cheap camera,” there is understandable scepticism and the belief that the move is not about achieving the benefits of new technology.
There is no doubt that, in setting out to tackle construction industry shortages, we need to consider who is best placed to deliver training and where.