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Committee reports
Date published:
10 November 2020
More than 50% of the Scottish Budget - What are the expected outcomes from the Health and Social Care 2021/22 Budget? - Link between budgets and outcomes
Noting that IAs must publish:
Annual audited accounts;
Their budgets for the year, as part of an Annual Financial Statement;
Financial performance reports during the course of the year; and
An Annual Finance Report, as part of the Annual Performance Report which is published within three months of the end of the financial year.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
14 September 2020
Scotland's exports 2018 - How important are exports to the Scottish economy?
The value of Scotland's exports is equivalent to around half of Scottish GDPFigure 1: Exports as a proportion of Scottish onshore GDP - 2002 to 2018Exports Statistics Scotland 2018 and Quarterly National Accounts Scotland: Quarter 3 2019Since 2002, total exports have been equivalent to around 53% of onshore GDP in Scotland, peaking at 56.3% in 2011 and hitt...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
3 September 2020
Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Bill - Changes to hate crime characteristics
The court would be required to state that fact on conviction and take it into account when sentencing.
Both of these recommendations are taken forward in the Bill.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
6 August 2020
UK Withdrawal from the European Union (Continuity) (Scotland) Bill - Part 2 -Environmental Principles and Governance - Institutional models & independence from Ministers
Retrieved from <a href="https://www.scotlink.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/REPORT-Environmental-Governance-effective-approaches-for-Scotland-post-Brexit-OCT-2019.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.scotlink.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/REPORT-Environmental-Governance-effective-approaches-for-Scotland-post-Brexit-OCT-2019.pdf</a> [accessed 8 July 2020] The report suggested the creation of an independent Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment (PCE), a dedicated Environment Court and “a stronger, more pacey, engaged and transparent as well as better aligned set of administrative arrangements, including audit and parliamentary accountability...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
6 August 2020
UK Withdrawal from the European Union (Continuity) (Scotland) Bill - Part 2 -Environmental Principles and Governance - Sections 16-18: functions of ESS
Section 17 allows for ESS's functions to be modified by regulations (affirmative procedure) to take account of any obligations created by an agreement between the UK and EU on their future relationship.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
31 July 2020
Children (Scotland) Bill: consideration prior to Stage 3 - What the Bill does
Statutory factors: sections 1 and 12 would restate, and add to, the statutory factors the court must take into account when deciding an individual case.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
23 July 2020
Issue 11: EU-UK Future Relationship Negotiations - ECCLR committee report on legislative consent for the UK Environment Bill
The Scottish Parliament, as the Bill is currently drafted and if enacted, would have limited scope to influence decisions on devolved policy, scrutinise relevant legislation and its implementation and, therefore, effectively hold Scottish Ministers to account.
The reports states:
There is no equivalent of the LCM process/Sewel Convention for subordinate leg...
Committee reports
Date published:
19 June 2020
Legislative Consent Memorandum - UK Environment Bill - Shared or Concurrent Powers
As previously stated, however, the Committee believes that decisions about environmental policy in Scotland should be made in the Scottish Parliament, by members of the Scottish Parliament, to whom Scottish Ministers are accountable.
The Committee considers the Scottish Government has not yet provided a sufficient level of detail about the circumstances in...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
17 June 2020
Issue 10: EU-UK Future Relationship Negotiations - Scottish Government reaction
Scottish Government reaction
The Scottish Government has made a number of calls for the transition period to be extended, both to allow time for a future relationship agreement to be negotiated and to take account of the impact of COVID-19. These calls have all been rejected by the UK Government.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
28 May 2020
The UK Environment Bill - Stakeholder reactions
Independence of funding:
The RSPB have said that given the OEP's budget will be largely controlled by the Government, this raises concerns about its ability to hold it to account. Greener UK and Wildlife and Countryside LINK welcomed the UK Government's political commitment to provide the OEP with a five-year budget, but said this should be put in the Bill....
