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You can read about the Committee’s own pre-budget scrutiny, including its report:
Pre-Budget Scrutiny 2026-27: Responding to Long-Term Fiscal Pressures.
Sitting days, recess and the pre‑election campaign period
The replication of the 6-week pre-election campaign period required the Parliament's agreement to motions setting recess dates and dates relating to the office of the Clerk.
Regional data for previous years' spend should also be provided.
In its pre-budget scrutiny report in 2019, the Committee noted the striking regional disparities in the award of RSA over the last five years.
So a broader range of pre-12 behaviour, including spent and unspent convictions accrued before the increase in the age of criminal responsibility, will be protected.
Witnesses also emphasised that, by reducing the time between events being reported and the evidence being taken, pre-recording could enable the person to recover from the events more quickly and recount them more accurately.
Overall views on a phased approach
Overall, evidence to the Committee supported a phased approach to implementation of the rule requiring pre-recording, including the initial focus on child witnesses in the most serious cases.
Committee reports
Date published:
16 December 2021
Pre-departure testing was introduced on 15 January 2021 by the Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Pre-departure Testing and Operator Liability) (Scotland) Regulations 2021 (SSI 2021/20).