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SPICe briefings
Date published:
9 November 2018
Local Government finance: the Funding Formula and local taxation income - Funding for local authorities in Scotland
Funding for local authorities in Scotland
The Scottish Government estimates how much local government needs to fund the services it provides.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
28 September 2018
European Union funding in Scotland - The European Union Budget
In addition to funding distributed as part of the MFF, some finance is provided outwith the EU budget to projects in Scotland on a more commercial basis:
European Investment Bank (EIB): the EIB is an investment bank that is jointly owned by EU Member States and is the world's largest multilateral lending institution.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
18 September 2018
Buying a home - Scottish Government support - Which builders do Help to Buy purchasers buy from?
This FOI response provides data on the number of homes, and the total value of the homes purchased by people taking part in the Help to Buy scheme, broken down by participating builder.1Scottish Government. (2017, November 29). Help to Buy (Scotland) Affordable New Build Scheme: FOI release.
Committee reports
Date published:
28 February 2018
Air Quality in Scotland Inquiry - Conclusions
However, it is concerned that only having 95 such monitors across Scotland - which equates to less than 3 monitors per local authority - does not appear to give sufficient importance to the study and possible mitigations to poor air quality.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
27 February 2018
Committee witnesses: gender and representation - Introduction
Introduction
The diversity, or otherwise, of witnesses that appears before a parliament’s committees can be seen as important for a number of reasons, including providing the information and perspectives that committees require in order to undertake the scrutiny of government actions and legislation, and in reflecting the ways in which they engage with wider society.
In Scotland, committees are an important part of the parliamentary structure – their combination of legislative and executive oversight means that they play a major role in scrutinising the policies and legislation of the Scottish Government, while they are also able to hold a variety of public bodies, and indeed others, accountable for their actions, not least through gathering written and oral evidence, the publication of reports and their access to the media.
Committee reports
Date published:
12 February 2018
Report on Homelessness - Preventing homelessness and the "Housing Options" approach
The 2016 evaluation of Glasgow Housing Options model had shown—
The implementation of Housing Options in Glasgow coincides with a steep decline in homeless assessments (19% in 2013/14), which is substantially greater than experienced in previous years, or for Scotland as a whole. Since then, homeless assessments have continued to decline, albeit at a slowe...
Committee reports
Date published:
19 January 2018
Scottish Government's Draft Budget 2018-19 - Orkney and Shetland internal ferry services
We are engaging with local authorities on the terms under which responsibility for ferry services might transfer and the local authorities have been provided with a set of principles that will apply should they wish to go ahead.1Transport Scotland. (2012, December 19). Scottish Ferry Services: Ferries Plan (2013-2022).
SPICe briefings
Date published:
18 December 2017
Local Government Finance: Draft Budget 2018-19 and provisional allocations to local authorities - Local government budget breakdown
Retrieved from <a href="http://www.gov.scot/Resource/0052/00529327.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.gov.scot/Resource/0052/00529327.pdf</a> [accessed 14 December 2017] in real terms.
Table 2 - All Scotland aggregated funding totals 2017-19, cash and real terms 2017-18 (cash) (£m)2018-19 (cash) (£m)Cash change (£m)Cash change %2018-19 (real) (£m)R...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
18 December 2017
Draft Budget 2018-19 - Equality Budget Statement
It states the impact of income tax policy is limited to those who are in receipt of a taxable income. In Scotland, there are almost two million adults with no income tax liabilities due to low or no income, which is over 40 per cent of the 16+ population.
Committee reports
Date published:
2 October 2017
School infrastructure - Building maintenance
Education and Skills Committee 14 June 2017, Ian McKee (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in Scotland), contrib. 35, http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/report.aspx?
