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She noted SHRC’s report last year on how the Scottish budget for 2021-22 stacked up against international best practice showed that scores were up across the board on participation, transparency and oversight. When compared with the latest country rankings in the OBS global rankings for 2023, she noted that all three of Scotland’s scores sit higher than the...
Figure 1: Scottish Budget Process timelineInfographic timeline showing the Scottish Budget Process by calendar monthSPICeThe Committee produces annual guidance for other committees on the budget process, including a range of possible approaches they might take. The latest Budget Process 2026-27: Guidance for Committees3Budget Process 2026-27: Guidance for C...
The Scottish Government’s response of 20 December 2023 explains that the 2018 Programme for Government made a commitment to update codes of practice for the welfare of farmed animals and that “the main reason for moving from animal welfare codes to guidance is to provide a more practical method for good practice information to be published and updated quickly in order to keep stockkeepers up to date with developing scientific evidence and the latest...
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Date published:
22 December 2021
People will need to re-apply for their postal vote every three years on the third 31st January after the date of their latest application.
Those electors who are eligible to vote by post in UK Parliament elections and Scottish elections will need to be a part of both processes – i.e. the three-year renewal (for UK Parliament elections) and the five-year sig...
Education is needed in every part of the sector, because we will need new ways of working and new technologies that we will not have seen before and will not be familiar with.
They are entitled to the payment for a longer period—up to the age of 26. Has specific work been done to ensure that members of that group are aware of the new benefit?
What is your sense of how that works in the new landscape, with, as you described it, the new infrastructure that has been created to look at those issues?
It is reported that President Trump will visit Scotland in September. What plans does the cabinet secretary have for that visit and for engagement with President Trump?