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Local government budget - context
Previous SPICe briefings (see Related briefings) discuss longer term, historic local government financial information.
To compliment the Committee's inquiry into the EU referendum and its implications for Scotland, the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe) produced a weekly update covering the UK's exit from the EU.
Scottish Ministers could also make regulations enabling them to impose financial penalties for failure to comply with a profit limitation or information requirement.iiScottish Parliament. (2025, August 25). SPICe Research Briefing on the Children (Care, Care Experience and Services Planning) (Scotland) Bill).
The responses to the Commission's consultation are not publicly available. SPICe would like to thank the Commission and the Scottish Government for making the submissions the Commission received (and had consent to pass on) available to SPICe.
Public sector pay
The SPICe summary of evidence states that "there is a question as to how deliverable the public sector pay spending assumptions are in the RSR given the increase in inflation".SPICe, Summary of Written Submissions, 20 September 2022 As at early September, public sector pay increases were costing £7...