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SPICe briefings
Date published:
24 April 2025
Tertiary Education and Training (Funding and Governance) (Scotland) Bill - Scottish apprenticeships
There are currently 13 graduate apprenticeships offered in Scotland, including accounting and data science.
Apprenticeship funding in Scotland by type and organisation, 2023-24Type of apprenticeshipSDSSFCSAASTotalFoundation£8 million£10 million-£18 millionModern£84 million£50 million-£134 millionGraduate£6 million£23 million£5 million£33 millionTotal£98 mil...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
13 March 2025
Exploring Employability Funding Allocation in Scotland - Section 2.3: Challenges in Managing Multiple Funding Streams
Third Sector _03 Rural)
Stakeholders highlight the need for streamlined reporting processes that maintain accountability without hindering service efficiency.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
13 March 2025
Exploring Employability Funding Allocation in Scotland - Section 6: Suggestions for Improvement
Improved coordination between Scottish Government and local Luthorities was identified by 24.6%, reflecting concerns about policy alignment, bureaucratic inefficiencies, and funding governance.
Additional suggestions accounted for 60.0%, illustrating a demand for further policy refinements beyond the primary areas highlighted.
Committee reports
Date published:
31 January 2025
Post-legislative scrutiny of the Child Poverty (Scotland) Act 2017 - Impact of Scottish Government policies at local level
It does not feel as if we are making a massive contribution to meeting the national targets, but having them is important because it focuses minds.xSocial Justice and Social Security Committee, Official Report, 21 November 2024, Col 17
Some of the evidence received indicates that the national target poverty measures do not take account of the high cost of l...
Committee reports
Date published:
17 January 2025
Follow-up inquiry into salmon farming in Scotland - Provision for “practical action” in the event of high mortality
At the same time, however, the Committee believes further action is needed to improve the governance of fish health and welfare on farms to address gaps in accountability and enforcement around mortality.
Committee reports
Date published:
17 January 2025
Follow-up inquiry into salmon farming in Scotland - Developments in aquaculture policy since the REC Committee report
In February 2022, Professor Griggs published ‘A Review of the Aquaculture Regulatory Process in Scotland’ with recommendations which he felt would “give the aquaculture sector an opportunity to develop in a way that allows commercial certainty within a controlled environment while taking into account the different status of each sector”.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
10 January 2025
Getting the inactive active: Barriers to physical activity and their potential policy solutions - Gender disparity
To address such concerns requires alternative provision that takes account of women's health factors, with a view to increasing rates of female participation6Scottish Parliament Health, Social Care, and Sport Committee. (2023, October 9).
Committees
Last updated:
9 January 2025
Framework for the Resource Spending Review
You can read the summary below:
SPICe summary of evidence (255KB pdf, posted 22 February 2022)
Oral Evidence
The Committee took evidence on the following dates:
Tuesday 8 March 2022
The Committee took evidence from:
Emma Congreve, Knowledge Exchange Fellow, Fraser of Allander Institute
Professor David Heald, Professor of Public Sector Accounting, Adam Smit...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
19 December 2024
Scottish Parliament Statistics 2022-2023 - 4.3.9. Finance and Public Administration Committee
Finance and Public Administration Committee
Established: 15 June 2021
Remit: To consider and report on the following (and any additional matter added under Rule 6.1.5A)—
(a) any report or other document containing proposals for, or budgets of, public revenue or expenditure or proposals for the making of a Scottish rate resolution, taking into account any re...
Committee reports
Date published:
10 December 2024
Stage 1 Report on the Disability Commissioner (Scotland) Bill - The need for a Disability Commissioner
, published in June 2023, and recognises that people often seek a ‘champion’ to represent them and are dissatisfied with current accountability mechanisms.
In its evidence, the CYPCS referred to an ‘implementation gap’, which it described as a reaction to ineffective legal and policy implementation, and that there are barriers to access to justice for disab...
