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Committee reports
Date published:
3 July 2018
Bank closures: impact on local businesses, consumers and the Scottish economy - Online and phone banking
Online and phone banking
One of the arguments made by the banks for closing branches is the increased use of online and digital banking. Scottish Financial Enterprise pointed to the large increase in the use of online banking facilities and electronic payments over time as well as the decline in use of cash and concurrent increase in the use of contactless...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
26 April 2018
Cycling - What works? - Case study conclusions
Lessons from Edinburgh
The practical and policy measures consistently found to encourage modal shift to bike identified in the literature review should be applicable to all Scottish local authorities. However, there are additional lessons to learn from the experience of CEC, including:
Partnership building: A pro-cycling culture can be built within an autho...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
25 April 2018
Mackerel - Import and exports
However, over 90% of mackerel available for export in the UK is landed in Scottish ports.
Mackerel imports and exports by value (average from 2012 to 2016) by region.Source: HMRC overseas trade statistics.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
7 March 2018
UK trade policy and Brexit - The Single Market
Single market membership also removes non-tariff barriers (NTBs) such as technical specifications and labelling requirements. This means Scottish businesses can effectively sell their goods to a ‘home market' of over 500 million consumers.
Committee reports
Date published:
12 February 2018
Report on Homelessness - Housing First pilots in Scotland
Retrieved from <a href="http://www.parliament.scot/S5_Local_Gov/Inquiries/20170615_Homelessness_Crisis.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.parliament.scot/S5_Local_Gov/Inquiries/20170615_Homelessness_Crisis.pdf</a> [accessed 19 September 2017]
Turning Point Scotland, which was one of the first organisations to implement the model in Scotland, highlighted that the major difference between this and other methods of providing homelessness services is that the service is not a staircase model, i.e. the individuals who present as homeless do not have to show commitment to maintaining a tenancy or give up any of their addictions, if that is relevant to their case, before they are given a permanent tenancy. They are given a Scottish...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
6 December 2017
Income Tax in Scotland: 2017 update - Measuring behavioural responses
High income taxpayers, the self-employed, secondary earners in households, as well as taxpayers in systems where itemized deductions are available (e.g. charitable donations) tend to have the highest TIEs although there is substantial variation in TIEs depending on the study.3Berthier, A. (2014). The Scottish rate of income tax and additional rate taxpayers...
Committee reports
Date published:
28 September 2018
Pow of Inchaffray Drainage Commission (Scotland) Bill - Second Consideration Stage Report
The Minister also noted that the Scottish Government welcomed the amendments relating to establishing an appeals process.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
25 September 2025
Definitions of terminal illness in assisted dying legislation
This is similar, but not identical to, provisions in Scottish social security legislation whereby the Chief Medical Officer must prepare and publish guidance relating to the definition.
Committee reports
Date published:
27 February 2026
Options for a legal mechanism for triggering any independence referendum - Annexe A: extract from advisers' briefing
The following observations may be of interest from a Scottish perspective.
First, the provision must be placed into the context of decolonization.
Committee reports
Date published:
21 January 2021
Domestic Abuse (Protection) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1 Report - Conclusions and recommendations
Legislating on such a serious and complex issue as domestic abuse is difficult and requires time for detailed consultation to take place, and we note that time for detailed scrutiny on this Bill has been curtailed in part because of the pandemic and because of the volume of other Scottish Government legislation that we have been required to consider at the ...
