There are 58,760 results relating to "Best"
Order by
|
Committee reports
Date published:
9 December 2020
Redress for Survivors (Historical Child Abuse in Care) (Scotland) Bill - Stage 1 Report
The Committee also encouraged the Scottish Government to look to other redress schemes for examples of best practice in relation to non-financial redress.
Committee reports
Date published:
18 March 2026
Annual Report of the Finance and Public Administration Committee 2025-26
Building on our work from previous years, the Committee has continued to scrutinise the quality of information and assumptions in FMs, including the extent to which these provide best estimates for costs and savings arising from Bills.
Committee reports
Date published:
30 January 2026
Delegated powers in the Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill (as amended at Stage 2) - Review of relevant powers
Delegating the power in this way allows a degree of flexibility, which may be necessary as standards are likely to evolve in line with best practice and professional requirements.
Committee reports
Date published:
23 January 2026
Stage 1 report on the Ecocide (Scotland) Bill - Enforcement
It stated that “it will be our members, in many cases working within stretched public bodies, that must gather and accumulate a huge level of evidence to satisfy the Procurator Fiscal,”xiiUNISON Scotland, written submission adding that creating new offences “without regard to the feasibility of their enforcement is at best a very small step forward.” UNISON...
Committee reports
Date published:
21 November 2025
Pre-Budget scrutiny 2026-27: funding for culture - Audience travel
The survey would seek views about how and why the culture sector is supported and what the sector thinks needs to change to best meet its needs going forward. Responses will inform the scope of both the review of culture sector support in Scotland and the review of Creative Scotland.
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.
