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Committee reports
Date published:
19 June 2025
Report on the Scottish Budget process in practice - Overview
Insufficient data is seen to jeopardise the ability to properly hold the Government to account for its budgetary decisions.8Scottish Parliament, Finance and Public Administration Committee. (2025, May 15).
Committee reports
Date published:
15 May 2025
Widening access to higher education inquiry - Role of Colleges
meetingId=16285 [accessed 20 March 2025]
She said much work is being done to ensure that the delivery of HNCs or HNDs by colleges is in strategic partnership with universities and takes into account the fact that it is a different qualification assessed differently to the undergraduate degree that the student might progress into.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
4 November 2024
Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill - Republished - End of Life Decisions in Scotland
Retrieved from https://www.gov.scot/publications/palliative-care-strategy-palliative-care-matters/pages/2/ [accessed 14 October 2024]
An estimated 56,416 people died with a palliative care need in Scotland in 2021. This accounted for 89% of all deaths.2Scottish Government. (2024, October 2).
SPICe briefings
Date published:
21 June 2024
Circular Economy (Scotland) Bill: Consideration prior to Stage 3 - Circular Economy Strategy (sections 1-5 of the Bill)
These included:
To consider how the circular economy strategy could take into account the extra-territorial impact of consumption in Scotland, noting evidence taken by the NZET Committee at Stage 1, for example about overseas impacts of waste exports
Member amendments were proposed which would specify sectors the circular economy strategy should cover, or a...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
5 June 2024
Land Reform (Scotland) Bill - Section 1: Community-engagement obligations in relation to large land holding
Therefore, the obligation to produce a land management plan applies to single or composite holdings of over 3,000ha or to a land holding of at least 1,000ha that accounts for more than 25% of a permanently inhabited island.
Committee reports
Date published:
29 March 2024
Subordinate legislation considered by the Rural Affairs and Islands Committee on 20 March 2024
Regulation 2(8) of the instrument updates the table of fees for documentary checks for certain goods from any EU Member State, Liechtenstein, or Switzerland to account for fees for checks on medium-risk goods.
News
Published:
22 February 2024
Majority of Health, Social Care and Sport Committee offer conditional backing of the National Care Service Bill at Stage 1
The Committee welcomes indications from the Scottish Government that, as a consequence of the consensus agreement with COSLA, rather than being transferred to Scottish Ministers, legal accountability for the proposed National Care Service will be shared between the Scottish Government and local government.
Committee reports
Date published:
22 February 2024
Stage 1 report on the National Care Service (Scotland) Bill - Consideration by other Committees
In relation to the updated Financial Memorandum provided to that Committee on 11 December 2023, the FPA Committee's letter further concluded:
Given the ongoing co-design and continued uncertainty regarding the final policy detail relating to the Bill, although the variance in costs has reduced considerably, we are not confident that the figures presented in the updated FM and the accompanying shared accountability...
Committee reports
Date published:
1 December 2023
Subordinate legislation considered by the Rural Affairs and Islands Committee on 22 November 2023 - Rural Affairs and Islands Committee consideration
She further explained that a variety of factors have been taken into account when developing the proposals for the ceiling rates set out in the Order and that the Scottish Government had looked at averages over the past 10 years to project potential costs.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
24 November 2023
The Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill - Consultation
The majority agreed that Fair Work conditions should be applied to all Scottish Agricultural workers, though some noted that accommodation and other provisions for farm workers would need to be taken into account. Others argued that a requirement to pay the real Living Wage would have a impact on businesses where this is not financially viable.
