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SPICe briefings
Date published:
6 December 2024
Scottish Budget 2025-26 - Equality and Fairer Scotland Statement
The Scottish Government outlines the following changes to the statement:
making improvements to internal processes, such as greater integration with the Programme for Government and budget processes to ensure that evidence actively shapes budget decisions when these are made, and the budget process itself to ensure that evidence actively shapes budget decisions when these are made;
bringing Cabinet Secretaries together again in a pre...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
6 December 2024
Scottish Budget 2025-26 - Transparency
Stakeholders have suggested to the Equality, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee, however, that in order to truly support scrutiny some of this additional detail should be made public in advance of the Budget to inform pre-Budget scrutiny and support participation.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
3 October 2024
Post-Legislative Scrutiny in the Scottish Parliament: A Reflection of Session 5 - Lack of time for post-legislative scrutiny
The timing issue is mainly caused by the amount of government legislation which also needs to pass through the same committee system, as well as the pre-budget scrutiny they undertake and the petitions they may need to consider.
Committee reports
Date published:
7 March 2024
Report on the Local Authority (Capital Finance and Accounting) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2024 - Conclusion
s attention to the concerns raised in correspondence from COSLA in respect of the four-week consultation period on the regulations as originally proposed and the fact that this coincided with the busy pre-Christmas budget period.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
13 June 2023
Bail and Release from Custody (Scotland) Bill: Consideration prior to Stage 3 - Summary
It sets out:
a range of measures aimed at increasing the likelihood of an accused being granted pre-trial bail, as opposed to being held (remanded) in custody, where this can be done safely
provisions on what account should be taken of any period a person has spent on bail subject to a curfew condition when a court is imposing a custodial sentence in the ca...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
16 March 2023
Children (Care and Justice) (Scotland) Bill - Part 4: Child's plan and named persons
However, as a key element of the national GIRFEC approach, in many local authorities, children under 18 do have a non-statutory key point of contact known as the 'named person'. For pre-school children, the named person will usually be a health visitor and for school aged children it will likely be a senior, deputy or head teacher.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
7 November 2022
Retained EU Law and the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill - Trade and the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement
Section 29 of the European Union (Future Relationship) Act 2020 provides that any pre-existing domestic law is to be read as being compatible with the TCA.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
22 June 2022
Resource Spending Review and pre-Budget scrutiny - Large income tax reconciliations ahead
If this negative reconciliation comes to light, there will be a significant pressure added to the Scottish Budget two years from now.
During pre-budget deliberations, committees may wish to question the Scottish Government over how it intends to deal with these potentially large negative reconciliations in upcoming budgets.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
22 June 2022
Resource Spending Review and pre-Budget scrutiny - Scottish Fiscal Commission forecasts
For example, monthly UK CPI inflation in April hit 9% and is expected by the Bank of England to rise to around 10% this year.
During pre-budget scrutiny, committees may wish to consider the implications arising from high inflation for their respective portfolio budgets.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
22 June 2022
Resource Spending Review and pre-Budget scrutiny - Equalities
The Equality, Budget, Advisory Group (EBAG) report on equalities and human rights budgeting, published in July 2021, recommended that the:
Scottish Government should produce a pre-budget statement, in-year reports and a mid-year review in line with international standards (with specific recommendations on the information and associated equalities analysis t...
