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Committee reports
Date published:
8 November 2022
Pre-Budget 2023-24 - Fiscal transparency
Dr Hosie, Scottish Human Rights Commission (SHRC), referred to the Open Budget Survey (OBS)Open Budget Survey - International Budget Partnership, as a “global indicator of fiscal transparency, participation and accountability in the budget process”. She called on the Scottish Government to undertake its own review against the OBS every two years (the UK is ...
Committee reports
Date published:
8 November 2022
Pre-Budget 2023-24 - Human rights
Gordon MacRae, Shelter Scotland, agreed with the Scottish Government’s stated objectives, a rights-based system for housing and homelessness, ensuring access to more social housing and discretionary housing payments in the RSR.iSocial Justice and Social Security Committee, Official Report 29 September 2022, Cols 33-34 Shelter Scotland did, however, have concerns about the lack of information on funding and called for a “full audit of all homelessness funding”, saying "we simply do not know if the existing homelessness funding, or the £600m investment noted in the RSR will have the desired impact on poverty.”iiiShelter Scotland Written Evidence
The SHRC recognised the Scottish Government is moving forward with improvements, however, Dr Hosie, believed the Government has missed an opportunity to apply some of its recommendations in the RSR.iSocial Justice and Social Security Committee, Official Report 22 September 2022, Col 7
Sara Cowan, SWBG, shared this view and noted had the recommendations been implemented this information “would have fed into each on-going budget process and would have meant that we would have had a cumulative process.”iSocial Justice and Social Security Committee, Official Report 22 September 2022, Col 8
We ask the Scottish Government what evidence it has to support that it took human rights principles into account...
Committee reports
Date published:
26 October 2022
Report tracking the work of the Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee 2021-22 - Non-Domestic Rates
The Order specified that in calculating the rateable value of any properties on the 2017 valuation roll after the instrument comes into force, no account can be taken of any matter arising on or after 1 April 2021 that is directly or indirectly attributable to coronavirus.
Committee reports
Date published:
26 October 2022
Report tracking the work of the Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee 2021-22 - Affordable housing
The Committee intends to pursue this issue throughout the session, seeking to understand better the housing needs of Scotland and ensuring that the Scottish Government is held to account for meeting these needs.
Status - still pursuing this issue
Committee reports
Date published:
5 July 2022
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee Report Legislative Consent Memorandum (LCM) on the High Speed Rail (Crewe to Manchester) Bill - Introduction
Hybrid Bills at Westminster are subject to a distinct procedure to make sure private interests are taken account of. This means they typically progress more slowly than standard public Bills.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
22 June 2022
Resource Spending Review and pre-Budget scrutiny - Public sector pay
It only affects the pay of Scottish Government staff, and the staff of agencies, non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs) and public corporations, which together account for around 10% of the devolved Scottish public sector workforce (around 42,000 full-time equivalent staff).
SPICe briefings
Date published:
16 March 2022
Economic, social and cultural rights and the proposed Human Rights Bill - UN reporting system and Universal Periodic Review
In the UK, reports are submitted by the UK Government which takes into account input from the devolved nations.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
24 February 2022
Coronavirus (Recovery and Reform) (Scotland) Bill: health, education, public Services and housing - What the provisions do
A number of other provisions in the first and second Scottish Coronavirus Acts also related to Freedom of Information, including for example allowing the Information Commissioner some discretion in taking account of the impact of coronavirus, and some requirements for Ministers to report on FoI backlogs (for example see the tenth FoI report, February 20221S...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
24 February 2022
Coronavirus (Recovery and Reform) (Scotland) Bill: health, education, public Services and housing - Concerns raised
This is perceived to be an increase in the permanent powers of Scottish Ministers and a reduction in accountability to the Parliament.
Finally, the analysis of the consultation explored opposition to the potential arrangements for vaccination and immunisations.
Committee reports
Date published:
22 February 2022
UK Internal Market Inquiry - Implementation of the TCA
Implementation of the TCA
A further area of inter-governmental working where there is a risk of a lack of transparency and Ministerial accountability is the operation of the TCA including the EU-UK Partnership Council (PC) and the Specialised Committees (SCs).
