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Committee reports
Date published:
15 May 2025
Widening access to higher education inquiry - Commissioner for Fair Access
COWA set out that the role of the Commissioner was to—
Lead cohesive and system-wide efforts to drive fair access in Scotland; acting as an advocate for access for disadvantaged learners and holding to account those with a role to play in achieving equal access.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
14 May 2025
The right to know: freedom of information in Scotland - Coronavirus (Scotland) Act 2020
Retrieved from https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2020/7/contents [accessed 19 March 2025]
The Coronavirus (Scotland) Act 2020 also allowed the Scottish Information Commissioner to take the impact of coronavirus on a public authority into account when it failed to comply with the timescales set out in FOISA.1legislation.gov.uk. (2020).
SPICe briefings
Date published:
29 April 2025
The UK Employment Rights Bill - Introduction and overview
The briefing provides an introduction to the main proposals in the Bill.
The briefing takes account of amendments to the Bill made in the House of Commons but not any changes made in the House of Lords.
Last updated:
22 April 2025
Academic engagement on climate change/net-zero scrutiny across policy areas
It is a collaboration between the Scottish Parliament, University of Edinburgh as host institution, and the universities of Glasgow, Strathclyde and Stirling, who along with Edinburgh hold an ESRC Impact Acceleration Account.
Through this resource, we will be piloting new activities in the area of climate-change knowledge exchange to extend and divers...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
20 December 2024
Local government finance: Budget 2025-26 and provisional allocations to local authorities - Sources of local authority funding
The Scottish Government’s position is that “councils operate independently of central government and are accountable to their electorates for the services they provide”.
Last updated:
5 December 2024
Working for the Scottish Parliament
Its core purpose is to ensure that it represents the people of Scotland by debating issues of national importance, passing legislation, and holding the Scottish Government to account.
We’re not civil servants, we’re public servants and we work for the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body (SPCB) who provide the Parliament with the property, staf...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
26 November 2024
Adults with incapacity - 2024 update - Access to funds
There are some circumstances where all that may be needed is the ability to access money in the adult with incapacity's bank account. This is covered by Part 3 of the 2000 Act.
Committee reports
Date published:
15 November 2024
Report tracking the work of the Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee 2023-24 - National Planning Framework 4 (NPF4)
In reporting to Parliament on the draft NPF4, the Committee agreed that it would monitor the effectiveness of NPF4 on an annual basis, holding the Scottish Government to account on whether or not NPF4 is meeting its ambitions.
Committee reports
Date published:
30 May 2024
Annual Report of the Public Audit Committee 2023-24 - Adult mental health
Adult mental health
The Committee commenced its extended scrutiny of the joint Auditor General and Accounts Commission (AC) section 23 report, Adult mental health, on 28 September 2023, taking evidence from the Auditor General and the AC.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
3 May 2024
Sport in Scotland: An Overview of Legislation, Governance, Policy and Funding - Sportscotland - Sport for Life
The six key principles guiding sportscotland to deliver the benefit of sport to all of Scotland are:
Inclusive, accountable, responsive, person-centred, collaborative and world class.
