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Legislative Consent Memorandums
The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill is a UK Government Bill introduced in the House of Commons on 17 December 2024. The UK Government tabled amendments to the Bill on 13 May 2025 which extend to Scotland.
The latest Audit Scotland report, covering the 2024-25 financial year, shows that boards achieved recurring savings of 2.2%, so meeting this target will require an improvement.
Outturn data on GDP at the end of 2024 was lower than anticipated, which the SFC attributes to “global instability and higher consumer and business costs”.
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One might assume that the costs of the revised Bill on the public purse would be less than was estimated by the Member in Charge in her letter to the Finance and Public Administration Committee on 2 December 2024. There are no estimates of how the amendments lodged by Liz Smith MSP at Stage 2 will affect the level of annual public funding that would be required to deliver the duties under the Bill.
The Finance and Public Administration (FPA) Committee considered the relevant regulations to devolve the power to raise revenue aimed at funding building safety expenditure in October 2024. As the legislation is primarily concerned with the operation of levying a tax, the FPA Committee was designated as the lead committee for consideration of the Bill.