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It received 72 submissions, which have been published on the Scottish Parliament website alongside analysis by the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe).
The total budget for the Scottish Government and its agencies in 2022/23 was approximately £50 billioniFrom the Scottish Government's website. The Committee, through its scrutiny of the Auditor General’s reports, considers how this money is spent and the outcomes that have been achieved, holding to account those who are charged with spending public finances...
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A SPICe briefing on the Bill as introduced provides information about changes the Bill proposes to make to:
the Children's Hearings System and the measures it can make;
the treatment of children within the criminal justice system, including available safeguards;
and secure a...
The process for the consideration of exclusions to the UK IMA in Common Framework areas is set out on the UK Government website. The UK Government and devolved administrations have agreed a Provisional Common Framework on Animal Health and Welfare.
Committee reports
Date published:
24 September 2020
The complaint against Sarah Boyack was not related to a matter from which she could have gained any financial benefit and there was no attempt to conceal the information which Ms Boyack made available on the Parliament’s website. Furthermore, she took steps to update her register when the Commissioner informed her that she had concluded a breach had occurre...
Full details of the Committee’s work on each report is available on the Committee’s website. While the key themes continued to feature in the audits that the Committee considered, the first of the reports discussed below described multiple pressures.