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Councils are also facing significant pressures in capital budgets. In 2025/26, councils are being provided with £777m capital to support £55bn worth of assets.
Sentencing (Pre-Consolidation Amendments) Bill LCM-S5-26 Lodged on 25 July 2019 At the end of the 2017-2019 session the Bill was carried over into the next session.
Clause 26 of the Bill would add a new section to the 1996 Act, creating a new type of automatically unfair dismissal related to fire and rehire practices.
There was a lingering lack of detail to support an understanding of how spending decisions had been made, and how equalities impacts had been considered as part of this process.
In the 2025-26 statement, the Scottish Government has included what it bills as a new annex which looks at key budget decisions in detail, w...
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.
Committee reports
Date published:
15 November 2024
New Deal
A key focus of the Committee's work in the early years of the session was the drive toward a new relationship between local and national government.