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Committee reports
Date published:
17 March 2026
Transparency of intergovernmental activity and its implications for parliamentary scrutiny - Interparliamentary Relations
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
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee Report on the Draft Climate Change Plan - Modal shift
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
Report on the Cost-effectiveness of Scottish Public Inquiries - Implementation of recommendations
This is essential to maintain momentum, ensure accountability, and guarantee that lessons learned lead to real change.
Committee reports
Date published:
19 December 2025
Stage 1 report on the Wellbeing and Sustainable Development (Scotland) Bill - Potential future savings
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
Stage 1 report on the Natural Environment (Scotland) Bill - Balancing or re-balancing the aims
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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11 September 2025
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SPICe briefings
Date published:
15 May 2025
Victims, Witnesses, and Justice Reform (Scotland) Bill: Consideration prior to Stage 3 - Summary
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.
Committee reports
Date published:
9 May 2025
Scotland's City and Regional Growth Deals - Inflationary pressures and the construction sector
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...
Committee reports
Date published:
29 January 2025
Report on the Legislative Consent Memorandum for the Data (Use and Access) Bill
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.
Committee reports
Date published:
24 January 2025
Audit Scotland Budget Proposal for 2025/26 - Staffing
Retrieved from https://www.parliament.scot/-/media/files/scottish-commission-for-public-audit/2025/20241219-letter-to-ags-budget-follow-up.pdf
In his response of 10 January 2025, the AGS explained that, after “careful thought” Audit Scotland has proposed that these additional costs are covered by the SCF for the following reasons—
clarity, transparency, and accountability,
the degree of uncertainty regarding how much of the additional costs will be funded by the UK Government and on the timing and method of resource transfer, including from the Scottish Government to public sector bodies,
advice from the Scottish Government Finance Directorate that it expects bodies to forecast these costs within budget submissions,
given 29 bodies are non-chargeable bodies for fees, the allocation of the NICS increase to fee paying bodies only “would introduce cross subsidisation across sector”, and
as a consequence of the financial year and audit year covering different timescales, significant additional administrative costs and overheads would be incurred to allocate part year NICs to public bodies’ fees and ensure accurate accounting.7Audit Scotland. (2025, January 10).
