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Transparency and Stakeholder Engagement
A key issue for this Committee and our predecessor Committee has been the lack of transparency, parliamentary accountability and stakeholder engagement with regards to intergovernmental activity within the ambit of Common Frameworks and the UKIMA exclusions process.
Consequently, “there would be merit in exploring whether Parliaments could work together better, horizontally, to hold Governments to account on intergovernmental relations.”4Scottish Parliament. (2025).
Committee reports
Date published:
27 February 2026
We heard that infrequent and unreliable services and poor connectivity left people in rural areas more car-dependent.viSummary of responses from public and community consultation and engagement on the draft CCP, SPICe Giving evidence in September 2025 on their carbon budget advice, the CCC told us they had sought to take this dimension into account in their...
Committee reports
Date published:
21 December 2025
It refers to the findings of the 2011 Christie Commission reportthat “as much as 40 per cent of all spending on public services is accounted for by interventions that could have been avoided by prioritising a preventative approach”.
Committee reports
Date published:
30 September 2025
The Committee questioned whether anything in the revised wording would affect how NPAs took account of, and weighed up, the aim of “sustainable economic development”.
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In response the Scottish Government reiterated a commitment to the proposal, arguing that it would provide a level of accountability that is currently lacking.
Some amendments were agreed to at Stage 2, including changes to the powers of the Commissioner when seeking information.
GDP deflators at market prices, and money GDP December 2024 (Quarterly National Accounts). Retrieved from https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/gdp-deflators-at-market-prices-and-money-gdp-december-2024-quarterly-national-accounts The Committee heard of the particular pressures through construction price inflation...
This would enable services such as account switching. The provisions are considered to engage the legislative consent process because they involve regulating the sharing of business data as well as customer data.