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SPICe briefings
Date published:
28 October 2025
Scotland's water industry: overview of regulation and key challenges - 6.2 Water scarcity
Retrieved from https://beta.sepa.scot/water-scarcity/ [accessed 27 June 2025]
To improve long-term resilience, the Scottish Government provides funding to local authorities to deliver the Private Water Supply Grant Scheme which offers up to £800 to eligible households and businesses to improve their existing private water supply.
Committee reports
Date published:
2 October 2025
Strengthening committees' effectiveness - Relationship between party membership and committee membership
We have been working on the Tertiary Education and Training (Funding and Governance) (Scotland) Bill, and I have been asking tough questions on both sides because I think that it is important to uncover the facts.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
1 September 2025
Freedom of Information Reform (Scotland) Bill - Background on reform of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act
Retrieved from https://digitalpublications.parliament.scot/ResearchBriefings/Report/2025/5/14/65591252-53c2-4a41-b8c3-262856e01756# [accessed 17 July 2025] Several consultations have explored to some extent how private and third-sector bodies that receive public funding and deliver public services could be subject to FOISA's requirements.1Aitken, C. (2025, ...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
25 August 2025
Children (Care, Care Experience and Services Planning) (Scotland) Bill - Glossary
Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014: This Act introduced a range of reforms across children's services, including: the introduction of corporate parenting duties for certain publicly funded individuals and organisations to meet the needs of care experienced people; local authority duties to provide services and support for children at risk of beco...
Committee reports
Date published:
16 September 2024
Report on Scotland's Commissioner Landscape: A Strategic Approach - Failures in public service delivery
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Other witnesses suggested that the funding for proposed new bodies would be much better spent on the delivery of services, including Alzheimer Scotland, who argued that this spend “could otherwise be directed to facilitate the direct provision of the types of services and support that people could benefit from to improve their experiences”.
Committee reports
Date published:
18 March 2024
Stage 1 report on the Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill - Annexe C: Suggestions for schedule 1
They suggest sub-paragraph 6(1) could technically be very broad in scope, and more generally posted the question of whether support for general rural business should be provided through agricultural funding, or through other business support through e.g. enterprise networks.
Committee reports
Date published:
28 February 2024
Adult mental health - Demand for adult mental healthcare
Demand for adult mental healthcare
The AGS/AC report highlighted that funding for adult mental health services has increased significantly since 2017.
Committee reports
Date published:
8 February 2024
Stage 1 Report on the Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Bill - Category 1 and Category 2 regulators
For Category 1, who also represent the profession, this includes setting up an independent regulatory committee made up of legal and lay members. They must also set up a fund for making grants to compensate persons who suffer loss by reason of dishonesty, and issue annual reports on the exercise of their regulatory functions with the Scottish Ministers must...
Committee reports
Date published:
21 December 2023
Stage 1 Report on Visitor Levy (Scotland) Bill - Part 4: Returns and payment
The STA also suggested that accommodation providers should pay levy funds collected and submit returns to local authorities twice a year rather than on a quarterly basis which would be “too onerous and burdensome on businesses”5Scottish Tourism Alliance, Written Submission. (2023, September).
Committee reports
Date published:
14 September 2023
Culture in Communities: The challenges and opportunities in delivering a place-based approach - Community ownership of cultural assets
If that challenge is passed on to community groups, particularly if they are volunteer led, it can be extremely challenging for them to take that on without further funding, advice, support, or information on how to manage the building.
