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SPICe briefings
Date published:
10 August 2023
Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Bill - Scottish Government response to the Roberton report
The public consultation which closed on 24 December 2021 set out three models for change:
Option 1 was based on the primary recommendation in the Roberton report - an independent regulator
Option 2 was a “Market Regulator Model” resembling the system in England and Wales where the Legal Services Board provides regulatory oversight of "approved regulators"
Option 3 was described as an "enhanced accountability and transparency model" where each of the current regulators would have an independent regulatory committee accountable to the Scottish Parliament or the Lord President.2Scottish Government. (2021, October 1).
SPICe briefings
Date published:
8 September 2021
Scotland's Business Base: Facts and Figures - Size and employment structure
Size and employment structure
The Businesses in Scotland publication showed that of the 364,310 private sector enterprises operating in Scotland in 2020:
enterprises with no employees – that is sole proprietors or partnerships comprising only the owner-managers or companies comprising only the employee director – accounted for 70% of all private sector enterprises in Scotland and 14% of employment
103,085 (28%) were small (1-49 employees) representing 29% of total employment
4,055 (1.1%) were medium-sized (50 to 249 employees) and represented 13% of total employment in Scotland
2,440 (0.7%) were large (250 or more employees) and accounted for 44% of employment.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
27 August 2021
Local government finance: concepts, trends and debates - Local government spending and income – 2019-20 outturns
Together, education and social work accounted for 79% of local authorities’ net revenue expenditure in 2019-20.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
12 January 2021
Update to the Climate Change Plan - Key Sectors - Context
Figures for 2018 show that electricity accounted for 22% of overall energy consumption in Scotland.
Committee reports
Date published:
13 November 2020
COVID-19: impact on businesses, workers and the economy and pre-budget scrutiny - Targets - Scottish Enterprise
They use this framework to monitor how inclusive their actions are by tracking a number of indicators aimed at giving more insight into how far activities reach in terms of people and place.iiScottish Enterprise, Annual Report and Accounts for the year ending 31 March 2020
In relation to this year’s targets, SE said in evidence in September:
We have low confidence that we will achieve all our targets this year, given everything that is happening, but we remain highly committed to reporting regularly on our overall performance—not just on our normal targets, but on some of the additional work that we have been doing over recent months.iiiEEFW Committee meeting, 22 September 2020, col 28
SE said that its achievements demonstrate ‘a strong performance in challenging economic times.’ivScottish Enterprise, Annual Report and Accounts for the year ending 31 March 2020 In previous budget reports, the Committee has noted that the enterprise agencies created their own targets and assessed their own performance.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
24 June 2020
Local Government Finance: Facts and Figures 2013-14 to 2020-21 - Introduction
This approach has since also been adopted by the Accounts Commission. The exception to this is the section on Council Tax and Non-Domestic Rates income (NDRI).
Committee reports
Date published:
1 December 2019
Pre-budget scrutiny of the Scottish Government's draft budget 2020/21: justice and policing - Home Detention Curfews
You might say that it is absolutely right that, in public service, there is such accountability and, to a degree, that is the case, but individual decision makers, who must take into account lots of different information from different sources, different contributors and different professions, are always in the posit...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
2 July 2019
Local government finance: facts and figures 2013-14 to 2019-20 - Council Tax and NDR income levels
The distributable amount of NDR is distributed to councils on the basis of their share of the previous year's mid-year estimated income. The NDR Account may be in surplus or in deficit as a result.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
2 July 2019
Local government finance: facts and figures 2013-14 to 2019-20 - Introduction
This approach has since been adopted by the Accounts Commission. The exception to this is the section on Council Tax and Non-Domestic Rates income (NDRI).
Committee reports
Date published:
4 March 2019
Stage 1 Report on the Climate Change (Emissions Reduction Targets) (Scotland) Bill - Section fourteen - Permitted use of carbon units purchased by the Scottish Ministers
This allows Ministers to set a limit, through regulation, on the amount of carbon credits which can credited to the net Scottish emissions account within a given year.iClimate Change (Emissions Reductions Targets) (Scotland) Bill, section 14(1)(13A)(1) This "must not exceed an amount which represents 20% of the planned reduction in the net Scottish emissions account for that year."
