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Scottish Government debates
17 June 2021 Drug-related Deaths
26 October 2021 Mental Health Needs and Substance Use
13 January 2022 National Mission on Drugs
24 November 2022 National Drugs Mission
12 January 2023 National Drugs Mission
19 September 2023 Drug Law Reform
A National Drugs Mission Oversight Group was established in June 2022 to provide challenge, scrutiny and advice to the Scottish Government and the wider sector.
Table 1 shows that the largest single element of local government's income in 2022-23 came from the Scottish Government, in the form of General Revenue Grant (GRG):
Table 1: sources of local government revenue income 2022-23Source2022-23 (£bn)% of total revenue incomeGeneral Revenue Grant8.735%Non-Domestic Rates2.811%Other grants (including ring-fenced from SG)2.912%Council tax2.811%Customer and client receipts2.912%Other grants, reimbursements and contributions4.719%Total revenue income24.8100%Source: Scottish Local Government Finance Statistics 2022-23.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Genetically Modified Food and Feed (Authorisations and Modifications of Authorisations) (Scotland) Regulations 2023 (SSI 2023/59)
The Committee welcomed that regulation 22 of SSI 2023/59 corrects an error identified by the Committee in SSI 2022/137, the Genetically Modified Food and Feed (Authorisations) (Scotland) Regulations 2022.
Capital allocations
As shown in Tables 5 and 6 (below) there is a 17.8% increase to the total capital allocation going to local government in 2023-24 compared to Budget 2022-23. Some of this is additional capital spend relating to free school meals priorities.
Retrieved from <a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/46/section/32" target="_blank">https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/46/section/32</a> [accessed 2 September 2022] The Secretary of State for Scotland has a separate power to challenge the bill during the four week period after the Bill is passed.
The SSN acknowledged that it would like to do more to provide training and build capacity in public sector procurement.ivOfficial Report, NZET Committee, 20 Sept 2022, col 47
The Committee in particular noted:
that there are substantive differences between the views of the UK Government and the Scottish and Welsh Governments regarding future alignment/divergence with EU law.
The Scottish Parliament . (2022, September 22). The Impact of Brexit on Devolution | Scottish Parliament.