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Pre-budget Scrutiny 2019-20 Agenda item 3 is an evidence session as part of our pre-budget scrutiny ahead of the publication of the Scottish Government’s budget for 2019-20 later this year.
The longer-term evaluative phase that Angela O’Hagan has talked about will influence committees’ pre-budget reports in ways that should drive some of the shift in the proposals that the Government publishes in the budget bill.
We will have local delivery staff in all local authority areas to provide pre-application advice and support, as well as support with the application process itself.
For example, section 12 of the Human Rights Act 1998 says that, in relation to pre-publication restraint, there must be “particular regard to” the article 10 protections.
Given the technical barriers, we requested that all our partner organisations—the alliance and the Malawi Scotland Partnership—let their members know that anyone who had technical issues or who was unable to attend could submit written responses to be read out at the round-table meetings. We thereby pre-empted some of the technical challenges so that people...