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SPICe briefings Date published: 24 April 2025

Tertiary Education and Training (Funding and Governance) (Scotland) Bill

First and foremost, we want to deliver the best service that we can for learners and employers.
SPICe briefings Date published: 17 December 2024

The law applying at the end of adult relationships

However, one difficulty with pensions is that they are not capable of being realised immediately or at least that is often not the best financial approach.1Sutherland, E. (2022).
Committee reports Date published: 3 May 2024

Post-legislative scrutiny of the Social Care (Self-directed Support) (Scotland) Act 2013: Phase 1

They expressed a view that this was an example of what SDS legislation was supposed to do by empowering Local Authorities to look at systems and providers and to help the individual navigate the best way forward for them. Fair work and staffing Participants highlighted challenges around staffing within social care services as a key barrier to effective impl...
SPICe briefings Date published: 30 April 2024

Scottish Languages Bill

A few emphasised the imperative aspect of engaging with communities more to identify the best ways to promote Gaelic. Finally, some respondents were not satisfied with the current operations of Bòrd na Gàidhlig and suggested that it should be disbanded.
SPICe briefings Date published: 10 October 2023

Mobile (Park) Homes

This was followed by a further consultation on how best to implement the commission rate reduction.
Committee reports Date published: 16 January 2023

Legislative Consent Memorandum: delegated powers relevant to Scotland in the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill - Committee consideration

This will incentivise genuine reform of retained EU laws in a way that works best for the UK. The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy will be working closely with other government departments to ensure appropriate actions are taken by the sunset date.
SPICe briefings Date published: 24 August 2022

Bail and Release from Custody (Scotland) Bill

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: 4 April 2022

Stage 1 Report to the COVID-19 Recovery Committee on the justice provisions in the Coronavirus (Recovery and Reform) (Scotland) Bill

It is really important that their mind is put at rest and that they know that the person they are face to face with is looking after their best interests.”iCriminal Justice Committee (Session 6), Official Report Wednesday 2 March 2022, Col 19 https://www.parliament.scot/api/sitecore/CustomMedia/OfficialReport?
Committee reports Date published: 10 February 2022

Inquiry into the use of the made affirmative procedure during the coronavirus pandemic

Yet retrospective scrutiny of significant changes of the law is always second best. Like the COVID-19 Recovery Committee it considers that the affirmative procedure, which is a well established scrutiny measure for more significant powers delegated in primary legislation, should be the Scottish Government's default option.
SPICe briefings Date published: 5 February 2021

Local Government Finance: Budget 2021-22 and provisional allocations to local authorities

Figure 3 below updates this by showing the change in the local government revenue budget compared to the best comparable figures for the Scottish Government's revenue budget.

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