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Committee reports
Date published:
25 January 2023
Budget Scrutiny 2023-24 - Capital Spending
SPICe explains in its Briefing on the 2023-24 Budget that, “when all sources of capital funding are taken into account, the total capital budget is flat in cash terms”.20
The SFC noted that “the Scottish Government’s capital budgets can be offset to some extent through its capital borrowing powers [under the Fiscal Framework] and that in 2023-24 it plans to use £250 million of capital borrowing and top that up with £200 million of other sources of funding for capital”.
Committees
Published:
19 January 2022
Scottish Budget 2022-23 – Impact on the West of Scotland Transport Network
Given additional funding is not realistic from local authorities, if provision is not made nationally then, without developing new revenue funding streams, public transport network post-Covid remains precarious.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
19 May 2025
S6W-37433
Delivered in partnership with the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations, the Programme has benefited over 3,500 people, helping them to access services and support online, develop essential digital skills, and improve their wellbeing.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
14 January 2025
S6W-32797
We will use the learning from our extensive research over the last 3 years to develop policy options that could help our fleets with their waste management and support the growth of our circular economy.
Official Report
Meeting date:
7 March 2024
Social Justice and Social Security Committee 07 March 2024
There is a responsibility to manage public funds, and that is how things operate with DWP benefits at the moment.
Official Report
Meeting date:
23 June 2021
Education, Children and Young People Committee 23 June 2021
Since the legacy report was produced, there has been a major and highly critical intervention from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Its report details 10 years of botched reform and bureaucracy that has put teachers under pressure and failed young people.
Committee reports
Date published:
13 May 2022
Health and Wellbeing of Children and Young People - The role of schools and youth services in supporting health and wellbeing
Witnesses welcomed the expansion of school counsellors and additional funding to support health and wellbeing either through pupil equity funding or additional funding provided to schools to support recovery from the pandemic.
Official Report
Meeting date:
28 January 2025
Meeting of the Parliament 28 January 2025
Motion, as amended, agreed to, That the Parliament welcomes the investment in Scotland’s public services through the draft Scottish Budget 2025-26; notes that £21.7 billion for health and social care investment and over £15 billion in funding for local authorities is being provided; calls on the UK Government to fully fund the additional cost of its increase in employer national insurance contributions, noting the significant impacts on public services, including social care, if it does not fund it in full; further calls on the UK Government to fully fund the increase in employer national insurance contributions in commissioned services and arm’s-length external organisations; notes the importance of the public service reform programme to drive future financial sustainability; further notes the success of the four-day week pilot trialled by South of Scotland Enterprise; calls on the Scottish Government to expand the four-day working week within the public sector workforce; celebrates the key role that the Scottish public service workforce plays in delivering these services across Scotland; notes that Scottish Liberal Democrat priorities have been reflected in the first draft of the Budget through the inclusion of the reinstatement of a winter heating payment for pensioners, extra funding for social care, additional funding for local healthcare to make it easier to see a GP or NHS dentist, funding for new specialist support across the country for people with long COVID, chronic fatigue syndrome and other similar conditions, the right for family carers to earn more without having support withdrawn, business rates relief for the hospitality sector, funding to build more affordable homes, enhanced support for local authorities operating ferry services, and the resumption of the work required to replace the Belford Hospital in NHS Highland and the Princess Alexandra Eye Pavilion in NHS Lothian; calls for further investment in drug and neonatal services, hospices, support for the young people with complex and additional needs attending Corseford College, and colleges, so that they can deliver the skills that the economy and public services need, and further calls for local authorities to receive a fair share of the money for additional employer national insurance contributions when it is received by the Scottish Government.
Official Report
Meeting date:
28 January 2025
Meeting of the Parliament 28 January 2025
Motion, as amended, agreed to, That the Parliament welcomes the investment in Scotland’s public services through the draft Scottish Budget 2025-26; notes that £21.7 billion for health and social care investment and over £15 billion in funding for local authorities is being provided; calls on the UK Government to fully fund the additional cost of its increase in employer national insurance contributions, noting the significant impacts on public services, including social care, if it does not fund it in full; further calls on the UK Government to fully fund the increase in employer national insurance contributions in commissioned services and arm’s-length external organisations; notes the importance of the public service reform programme to drive future financial sustainability; further notes the success of the four-day week pilot trialled by South of Scotland Enterprise; calls on the Scottish Government to expand the four-day working week within the public sector workforce; celebrates the key role that the Scottish public service workforce plays in delivering these services across Scotland; notes that Scottish Liberal Democrat priorities have been reflected in the first draft of the Budget through the inclusion of the reinstatement of a winter heating payment for pensioners, extra funding for social care, additional funding for local healthcare to make it easier to see a GP or NHS dentist, funding for new specialist support across the country for people with long COVID, chronic fatigue syndrome and other similar conditions, the right for family carers to earn more without having support withdrawn, business rates relief for the hospitality sector, funding to build more affordable homes, enhanced support for local authorities operating ferry services, and the resumption of the work required to replace the Belford Hospital in NHS Highland and the Princess Alexandra Eye Pavilion in NHS Lothian; calls for further investment in drug and neonatal services, hospices, support for the young people with complex and additional needs attending Corseford College, and colleges, so that they can deliver the skills that the economy and public services need, and further calls for local authorities to receive a fair share of the money for additional employer national insurance contributions when it is received by the Scottish Government.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
20 August 2025
A review of inter-governmental cooperation and communication during Ukraine resettlement efforts in Scotland - 4.1 Cooperation concerning the Homes for Ukraine scheme
Local Authorities were initially provided with 1-year tariff funding to support their ‘wrap-around’ integration services of £10,500 (per sponsored person).
