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SPICe briefings
Date published:
31 July 2025
The intergovernmental relations 'reset': one year on - Scottish Government funding
Retrieved from https://www.gov.uk/government/news/spending-review-billions-to-back-scottish-jobs [accessed 7 July 2025]
Speaking to the Scottish Parliament Finance and Public Administration Committee ahead of the October 2024 Budget, the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government Shona Robison MSP said that the Scottish Government had taken "a const...
Committee reports
Date published:
19 June 2025
Report on the Scottish Budget process in practice - Effective engagement
For example, one of the principles underlying the 2018 revised budget process was that the public should “have the opportunity to put their views to subject committees, as well as individual MSPs at an early stage in the process”.
News
Published:
15 May 2025
Urgent action plan needed to tackle housing crisis, says Committee
Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee Convener, Ariane Burgess MSP, said:
“It’s now a year since the Scottish Parliament officially declared a national housing emergency and homelessness remains dangerously high in some areas where there is now a systemic failure in the ability of local authorities to meet their statutory duties.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
24 April 2025
Tertiary Education and Training (Funding and Governance) (Scotland) Bill - Background: Post-school education reform
On 5 December 2023, the Minister for Higher and Further Education; and Minister for Veterans Graeme Dey MSP (the Minister) gave a Ministerial Statement on post-school reform plans.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
25 March 2025
Scottish Parliament Statistics 2023-2024 - Introduction
On 24 May 2022, the then Deputy First Minister, John Swinney MSP, announced in the Parliament that both Bills would return to the Parliament for reconsideration.
News
Published:
29 January 2025
Scottish Government must provide fiscal and economic clarity, says Finance Committee
Finance and Public Administration Committee Convener Kenneth Gibson MSP said:
“As the Scottish Government is aware, we are strongly of the view that more research is needed on behavioural responses to tax policy.
News
Published:
25 November 2024
Reform of criminal justice sector too slow amid growing financial pressures, say Holyrood Committee
The Criminal Justice Committee Convener, Audrey Nicoll MSP, said:
"Right across the sector we are seeing increasing cost pressures, and it’s clear there is a stark gap between what these organisations say they need for 2025/26 and what they may be given.
News
Published:
4 October 2024
Holyrood’s Net Zero Committee accepts the general principles of the Climate Change (Emissions Reduction Targets) (Scotland) Bill
Committee Convener, Edward Mountain MSP, said;
“This Bill was announced in April, but it took until 5 September for it to be introduced meaning that as a committee, we found ourselves considering at pace legislation that, whilst succinct, is also technical and complex.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
3 October 2024
Post-Legislative Scrutiny in the Scottish Parliament: A Reflection of Session 5 - Post-legislative scrutiny: Session 5 overview
It is important for committees to achieve consensus in this area as it makes any reports more hard-hitting for the government in particular, as their own backbench MSPs will also be supportive. Reports which are unanimous cannot be swept under the carpet as being overly partisan.
News
Published:
24 July 2024
Bill does not provide sufficient support and protection to Gaelic and Scots
The Committee’s report calls on the Scottish Government to explain how it would use the powers in the Bill to improve the position of Gaelic.
Sue Webber MSP, Convener of the Education, Children and Young People Committee, said:
“We have serious concerns about the future of Gaelic.
