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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 - 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.
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.
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 ...
Committee reports
Date published:
6 July 2022
Report on inquiry into Future Parliamentary procedures and practices - Introduction
A range of issues were debated and the Committee agreed to consider the following areas as part of its inquiry:
The ways in which scrutiny and debate can best be conducted in hybrid and virtual formats
An assessment of the impact of virtual participation by MSPs and by committee witnesses
The resource implications of virtual participation
Wider changes to p...
Committee reports
Date published:
13 May 2022
Health and Wellbeing of Children and Young People - Poverty and physical health
The Committee calls on the Scottish Government to collect and share best practice on flexible use of funding for local mental health services towards improving access to sport and physical activity for children and young people living in poverty.
Committee reports
Date published:
13 May 2022
Health and Wellbeing of Children and Young People - The role of schools and youth services in supporting health and wellbeing
That will enable us to know which groups of young people are more resilient and where there are particular risk factors in order for us to support those young people as best we canHealth, Social Care and Sport Committee, Official Report 25 January 2022, COL11.
Committee reports
Date published:
22 April 2022
Stage 1 Report on the Coronavirus (Recovery and Reform) (Scotland) Bill - Experience of remote service provision
Mr Swinney replied that this should be a matter of choice and told the Committee:
The best way to approach that is by providing the options that enable us to better meet all individuals’ needs in recognition that those might differ from individual to individual.iCOVID-19 Recovery Committee.
Committee reports
Date published:
25 January 2022
Report on Petition PE1817: End Conversion Therapy - Legislative ban - what should it cover?
The Scottish Government has stated that it will explore what legislative and non-legislative measures can be taken to best protect and support those who need it, whilst ensuring that freedoms of speech, religion and belief are safeguarded.
