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SPICe briefings
Date published:
13 March 2025
Exploring Employability Funding Allocation in Scotland - Section 3.2: Timing and Disbursement of Employability Funding
“Every year we repeat the process of uncertainty; it’s almost a game of waiting and hoping for the best …..COSLA’s allocations take time, and there’s often limited communication about changes.”
Committee reports
Date published:
4 February 2025
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee Report on the Legislative Consent Memorandum and supplementary Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Great British Energy Bill - Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee's consideration
The Committee accepts that the Scottish Government may have been motivated in this case to seek to provide the Parliament with an informed view on whether consent should be granted, and considered that it would be best to do so only following the conclusion of discussions with the UK Government about certain provisions in the Bill.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
6 December 2024
Scottish Budget 2025-26 - Executive Summary
Nowhere are these presentational difficulties more apparent than in the Local Government budget, and the Financial Scrutiny Unit’s (FSU) best forensic investigation skills have been required to get to the bottom of what’s happening to that budget.
Committee reports
Date published:
1 November 2024
Delegated powers in the Right to Addiction Recovery (Scotland) Bill at Stage 1
Section 3(2) sets out that treatment is not to be refused to a patient on the basis of any matter, other than an assessment by a relevant health professional of the best interests of the patient. It sets out a non-exhaustive list of reasons that may not be used in refusing treatment to a patient which includes: the cost of the treatment, any ongoing misus...
Committee reports
Date published:
22 February 2024
Stage 1 report on the National Care Service (Scotland) Bill - Other services
It concluded:
We do not propose that these services are included in the National Care Service but that there is provision to establish mechanisms to collaborate and for shared resources across housing, health, and social care to ensure best use of funding to deliver integrated services on the ground and tackle homelessness.
Committee reports
Date published:
24 October 2023
The Human Rights of Asylum Seekers in Scotland - Use of hotels, temporary accommodation, and the experience of asylum seekers
Feedback from “service users” he told us had been positive and that, where there were issues, “we do our best to resolve them through our welfare and safeguarding teams in order to support our service users.”.
Committee reports
Date published:
25 September 2023
Subordinate legislation considered by the Rural Affairs and Islands Committee on 13 September 2023
The Minister confirmed that NatureScot will update the guidance and stressed that authorisations require the people carrying out the shooting are properly qualified and are following the best practice guidance.
The Committee asked about the potential for operators to be penalised, should they fail to meet the minimum requirements to shoot at night and the p...
Committee reports
Date published:
22 September 2023
Report on the Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (Green Freeports Relief) (Scotland) Order 2023 [draft] - Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (Green Freeports Relief) (Scotland) Order 2023 [draft]
SPF suggested that seven years may be more appropriate "to give them the best chance of maximum success".4Finance and Public Administration Committee. (2023, September).
Committee reports
Date published:
29 November 2022
Inquiry into Town Centres and Retail in Scotland - Funding and Support for Town Centre Regeneration
The Scottish Government is asked to consider how best this could be set up and where, organisationally, it should sit.
Committee reports
Date published:
17 June 2022
Alternative pathways to primary care - Risks and benefits of greater use of digital
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee, Official Report 22 March 2022, COL38
The Scottish Government and COSLA's Digital Health and Care Strategy for Scotland aims to "improve the care and wellbeing of people in Scotland by making best use of digital technologies in the design and delivery of services".
