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Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee consideration.
SPICe Briefing
Committee Meetings
08 November 2023: The Committee agreed to close the petition under Rule 15.17 of Standing Orders.
Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee Consideration.
SPICe Briefing
Committee Meetings
03 May 2023: The Committee agreed to close the petition under Rule 15.7 of Standing Orders.
The order prevents the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill, passed by the Scottish Parliament on 22 December 2022, from being submitted for Royal Assent. SPICe published an Explainer on the Scotland Act 1998 Section 35 on 17 January 2023.
Local government is discussed in more detail later in this briefing, and SPICe will publish a detailed analysis of the settlement to local authorities in a future briefing.
In practice, the way in which people are able to exercise their rights is heavily dependent on government budgets and policies and the workings of individual organisations.
For further details see the SPICe Briefing - Equalities and Human Rights: Subject Profile.
Incorporating the information above, the most practical fiscal measures, suggested principles, and known constraints have been visualised in the diagram below.
Source: SPICe/Blackburn Circular Solutions
Self-Isolation support and compliance
As set out in the SPICe briefing on the bill, there is evidence that financial support for self-isolation can be a crucial tool in encouraging compliance and so reducing transmission of the virus, whilst preventing severe hardship.
The 2021-22 budget and local government settlement process
For budget 2021-22, the road to final Local Government allocations was as follows:
UK Spending Review published in Nov 2020
SG Cabinet discusses and agrees portfolio distributions for next financial year
SG Budget published on 28 January 2021 (includes £11.6bn for LG)
Local Government Finance Circular 21/01with provisional allocations (1 Feb)
Publication of SPICe...
Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee Consideration.
SPICe Briefing
Committee meetings
1 September 2021: The Committee agreed to close the petition under Rule 15.7 of Standing Orders on the basis that the petitioner has requested this, given that the 2020-2021 academic year has concluded, and results have already been awarded to student...