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Again, the City of Edinburgh and Aberdeen City have the lowest allocations per head. As detailed in the SPICe briefing Local Government Finance: The funding formula and local taxation income2Berthier, A., Burn-Murdoch, A., Aiton, A., & Finnigan, K. (2018, November 9).
Nonetheless, the Scottish Government firmly recommends that the Scottish Parliament not give its consent to the European Union (Future Relationship) Bill.
A SPICe blog post providing further analysis of the LCM was published on 29 December.
The Bill and related documents are available on the Protection of Workers (Retail and Age-restricted Goods and Services) (Scotland) Bill page on the Scottish Parliament's website.
A SPICe briefing on the Bill as introduced1Scottish Parliament Information Centre. (2020).
More detailed information on environmental governance and EU Exit can be found in the SPICe briefing, SB 20-02: Environmental Governance in Scotland after EU Exit.
Clauses in the UK Environment Bill:
anticipate future relationships between the OEP and any future environmental governance bodies set up in devolved areas, such as ESS.
provide that the OEP should consult a devolved environmental governance body if the work it is undertaking would be relevant to them.
enables the OEP to share certain information with a devolved environmental governance body which might otherwise be confidential.
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There are two open calls for evidence:
Finance and Constitution Committee - deadline 7 August 2020
Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform Committee - deadline 31 July 2020
A full SPICe briefing on the new Bill will be published in August.
Suggestions for alternative terminology included "parenting order" and "children's order".
As is set out in the SPICe comparative briefing (at pages 10-12), several other countries have made changes to the terminology associated with court orders.
The UK Government is committed to working with the devolved administrations to deliver a future relationship with the EU that works for the whole of the UK.
In January 2020, SPICe published Negotiating the future UK and EU relationship.
Central and local government, and different political parties, will have different preferences for what to include when discussing funding for local government. In this briefing, as before, SPICe has set out how different figures are arrived at, to allow for the greatest transparency in parliamentary scrutiny.