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The 2025-26 local government finance settlement provides an additional 8 per cent, which is a real-terms increase of 5.5 per cent compared with 2024-25.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
30 August 2013
To ask the Scottish Government what the timetable would be for the transfer of responsibility between the British armed forces and an independent Scotland's defence forces.
Key findings are:
Child-focused cash support is an evidence-based upstream intervention that improves early child well-being and strengthens developmental foundations – even with modest investment amounts.
Well-designed cash transfers in pregnancy and early childhood improve birth outcomes and support early development – with no evidence of harm and potenti...
“Utilising common good property to provide financial, social or environmental benefit to the community, including the transfer of ownership to community organisations”.
Committee reports
Date published:
9 September 2025
The Committee has significant concerns about the financial aspects of the Bill, specifically in relation to the transfer of staff between SDS and the SFC.
Available expertise
In 2019, the Scottish Government had explained that one of the challenges in establishing a separate advisory body would be finding the required expertise:
In advance of transferring the scheme the Scottish Government will have to decide whether, and how, to provide a Scottish equivalent of IIAC.
Committee reports
Date published:
14 November 2022
Annex B - Commitments: 13 May 2021-12 May 2022
Commitments outstanding from this reporting year
Education (Listed Bodies) (Scotland) Order 2018 (SSI 2018/7) commitment to bring forward an amendment at the earliest opportunity
Scotland Act 1998 (Specification of Functions and Transfer of Property etc.) Order 2019 (SSI 2019/183) [11th Report, 2019.
All documents are available on the Scottish Parliament website at: www .parliament.scot/documents SP Bill 27B Session 6 (2024)
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No points have been raised on the following negative instruments.Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004 (Remuneration) Amendment Regulations 2020 (SSI 2020/26) Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004 (Remuneration) Amendment Regulations 2020 (SSI 2020/26)National Health Service Superannuation and Pension Schemes (Miscell...