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Meetings
The Committee took evidence on this issue as part of its pre-budget scrutiny at its meetings on
6 September 2022
27 September 2022
As part of its pre-budget scrutiny for 2023-24, the Committee wrote to the Scottish Government reflecting on the evidence taken on the affordable housing supply programme.
New Deal with Local Government – Verity House Agreement.
For its Pre-Budget Scrutiny for 2026-27, the Committee agreed to explore how the Scottish Budget supports this ambition.
Committee reports
Date published:
19 December 2025
Accountability was the most prominent theme within committees' pre-budget scrutiny for 2024-25. In the Equality and Fairer Scotland Statement 2024-251Scottish Government. (2023, December 19).
In relation to pre-trial remand for summary cases, in 2020 the period an accused could be held on remand before the trial started was increased by 3 months from 40 days.
The main policy objective of the Bill is to improve how children and vulnerable witnesses participate in the criminal justice system by enabling the much greater use of pre-recording their evidence in advance of a criminal trial.
All that work is going on in sync, and it is very much in tune with the idea that, if we are to have more pre-recording, we have to get the pre-recorded evidence up to the best possible quality.
While as a matter of public policy the law sets its face against the imposition of a punishment of one contracting party (the debtor) by another (the creditor) by way of a penalty clause, it is no longer a general pre-condition of a clause’s enforceability that it be a pre-estimate of the financial loss which the cre...