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SPICe briefings
Date published:
6 June 2023
Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Bill - What the Bill does: Section 7 - Licensing: land on which certain birds may be killed or taken
The Policy Memorandum further states that the Code "will also set out best practice for the use of medicated grit and other activities related to grouse moor management".
Committee reports
Date published:
11 May 2023
Report on the Scottish Government's Air Quality Improvement Plan and wider air quality issues - Integration of Policy
The strategy defines place-making as "working collaboratively across professions and communities to identify the best place-based solutions for the issues that we face". iScottish Government (2021).
Committee reports
Date published:
28 April 2023
Stage 1 Report on the Patient Safety Commissioner for Scotland Bill - Principles and communication
The Bill defines this as ensuring individuals who have communication difficulties can receive information and express themselves in ways that best meets their individual needs.
On the whole, stakeholders were supportive of this provision of the Bill and felt it would promote equity of awareness and access to the Commissioner.
Committee reports
Date published:
21 March 2023
College regionalisation inquiry - Flexibility
Audrey Cumberford, Commissioner for the Commission on the College of the Future and Principal of Edinburgh College, told the Committee—
The answer is not always additional funding; it potentially involves considering how we can best flex the resource that is currently in the system and target it for the outcomes that we want to see in our regions.
Committee reports
Date published:
7 February 2023
Road to recovery: the impact of the pandemic on Scotland's labour market - Data
Sir Aziz explained that Scotland has “the best [public health] data sources in the world”.iCOVID-19 Recovery Committee.
Committee reports
Date published:
25 January 2023
Budget Scrutiny 2023-24 - Capital Spending
Further emissions cuts, it suggests, “will involve some genuinely difficult decisions for Scotland requiring significant long-term private investment and behaviour change, and discussions are ongoing on how best to secure the financing that will be required".3
The Climate Change Assessment of the Budget is a new section in the Budget document providing an o...
Committee reports
Date published:
3 November 2022
Pre-Budget Scrutiny 2023-24: Scotland's Public Finances in 2023-24 and the Impact of the Cost of Living and Public Service Reform - Scottish Government Budget: context
When its forecasts on social security spending are added to the Scottish Government's plans for health and social care spending "the funding lifts for other portfolios are very constrained" and, "once adjusted for inflation, funding in those other areas will fall substantially for the first three years of the spending review period".iiEconomic and Fiscal Outlook – May 2022, Scottish Fiscal Commission
The RSR notes that the "challenges, uncertainties and constraints in the economic and fiscal outlook make it essential to drive reform across public services, policies and programmes, in order that resources are targeted effectively to deliver the best...
Committee reports
Date published:
28 September 2022
Tackling health inequalities in Scotland - Scottish Government strategy and action
The Committee invites the Scottish Government to consider how this might best be achieved and, in responding to this report, to set out what steps it intends to take to improve cross-government and cross-sectoral efforts to tackle health inequalities.
Committee reports
Date published:
28 September 2022
Tackling health inequalities in Scotland - Fundamental cause of health inequalities
In his evidence, Ed Pybus articulated the need to address poverty in order to tackle health inequalities effectively:
It is pretty clearly established that health inequalities come about because of poverty and wealth and income inequalities. The best way of addressing health inequalities is to address poverty.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
24 August 2022
Bail and Release from Custody (Scotland) Bill - Current approach to decisions on bail and remand
Members of the judiciary:
there was a focus on the past behaviour of the accused as the best predictor of future behaviour, with previous analogous offending and breaches of previous court orders featuring strongly in decisions to refuse bail
a history of no/low risk offending, previous compliance with bail and/or the likelihood of a non-custodial sentence ...
