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Throughout our engagement with COSLA, Councils, and opposition parties ahead of the 2025-26 Scottish Budget, there was a clear consensus that Councils should have full flexibility for decisions on Council Tax rates.
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Date answered:
27 February 2025
The Budget 2025-26 freezes the Basic Property Rate for properties with a rateable value up to and including £51,000, delivering the lowest such rate in the UK for the seventh year in a row.
Cabinet Secretary for Constitution, External Affairs and Culture Angus Robertson MSP T: 0300 244 4000 E: [email protected] Clare Adamson MSP Convener of the Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee ___ th 11 March 2026 Dear Clare, Thank you for the opportunity to provide evidence on 26 February 2026, for the final session...
The Scottish Government is currently providing the full funding requested by local authorities to run their inter-island and internal ferry services in 2025-26, which is around £50 million, and increase of 19.4% from last year.
Details of road maintenance allocations to individual councils for financial year 2025-26 can be found on page 40 of the current Scottish Local Government Finance ‘Green Book’.
Consideration by committee 3. At its meeting on 26 November 2025 the Criminal Justice Committee agreed to recommend that the above Instrument be approved.
To help it in forming a view on the LCM, the Committee asks why the Scottish Government considers it appropriate to recommend consent to such a such a wide power, particularly in light of the views expressed in the House of Lords nd Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee’s 32 Report of Session 2024-26 on the Bill, drawing the attention of the Hous...
Many of the prevailing attitudes we discovered are alarming and distressing: • 26% of respondents did not believe that ‘Taking items from an older relative’s home without asking’ is a form of abuse; • 20% of respondents did not believe that ‘Using a Power of Attorney over an older relative for personal financial gain’ is a form of abuse; • 27% of respondent...