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Committee reports
Date published:
7 November 2024
Report on Pre-Budget Scrutiny 2025-26 - Managing Scotland's Public Finances: A Strategic Approach - Social security spending
The SFC forecasts that devolved social security payments will account for around £7 billion of spending by 2027-28, rising to £13 billion in 2072-73 in real terms.1Scottish Fiscal Commission.
Committee reports
Date published:
16 September 2024
Report on Scotland's Commissioner Landscape: A Strategic Approach - Introduction
Our findings and recommendations pave a way to bring more coherence and structure to the landscape, as well as greater accountability, value for money, and enhanced scrutiny of performance.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
9 September 2024
Local Government Finance: facts and figures 2024 - Council tax income
In its response to the Scottish Budget, COSLA argued that a fully-funded freeze would require the Scottish Government to provide funding of up to £300 million, £156 million more than the £144 million included in the Budget for this purpose. Furthermore, the Accounts Commission summarised the situation:
Most councils were proposing to increase their budgets ...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
6 June 2024
The Housing (Scotland) Bill - Private and social housing tenancy evictions - duties to consider delay
Consideration might also be taken into account, for example, whether the ending of a tenancy during or around any a period of religious observance or traditional festive period might cause the tenant or a member of the tenant's household to experience financial hardship or have a detrimental effect on the individual’s health.4Scottish Government. (2024, Mar...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
3 June 2024
Bankruptcy and Diligence (Scotland) Bill - consideration prior to Stage 3 - Greater protection from enforcement action for debtors
This would bring it into line with the minimum balance protected in a bank account.
In its response to the Stage 1 Report2Scottish Government. (2024).
Committee reports
Date published:
16 May 2024
Report on the Legislative Consent Memoranda for the Criminal Justice Bill (UK Parliament legislation)
The UK Government has set out that the Bill:
“is intended to amend the criminal law to make provisions about criminal justice including the powers and duties of the police; dealing with offenders; reforms to the confiscation regime under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, the use of monies in suspended accounts; the prevention and detection of crime and disord...
Committee reports
Date published:
22 April 2024
Stage 1 report on the Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) (Scotland) Bill - Existing law
During personal testimony to the Committee, Lily Roberts, who reported having experienced harassment outside of abortion services, gave an account of an experience outside the Sandyford Clinic in Glasgow.
Committee reports
Date published:
28 February 2024
Stage 1 Report on the Circular Economy (Scotland) Bill - Advantages of mandatory reporting
Advantages of mandatory reporting
Stakeholders supportive of these powers thought they could help to deliver greater transparency and accountability for waste generation, and incentivise circularity in the wider supply chain.iNet Zero, Energy and Transport Committee.
Committee reports
Date published:
28 February 2024
Adult mental health - A slow and complicated process
The pathways are confusing and people have to constantly repeat details of a deeply distressing situation because they have to provide that account each time that they meet a new health professional.1Official Report. (2023, November 9).
Committee reports
Date published:
31 January 2024
Budget Scrutiny 2024-25 - Social Security spending
meetingId=15631</a> suggested that “there is little space for new spending once we take account of pressures such as the ongoing consequences of changes to devolved social security payments and the linking of payment rates to inflation”, while the FAI4Scottish Parliament. (2024).
