Committee Bill on financial assistance for opposition parties
At its meeting on 12 September 2019, the Committee agreed to instruct a Committee Bill to transfer responsibility for setting the terms of the funding of non-government political parties – the provision of so-called “Short money” - from the Scottish Government to the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body.
The Committee wrote to MSPs, political parties and MSPs, the Scottish Parliament’s Parliamentary Bureau, the Scottish Government and the Electoral Commission seeking views on the proposed Bill.