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Intergovernmental activity update: Q1 2025

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SPICe has published a new quarterly intergovernmental activity update, which covers quarter 1 (January to March) of 2025. You can find previous updates on our intergovernmental activity hub

‘Intergovernmental activity’ refers to work between governments – in a Scottish context between the Scottish Government and the UK Government or other devolved governments. It can include discussions on areas of mutual interest, policy development, and policy implementation.

Read a previous SPICe blog that sets out why awareness of intergovernmental activity is an essential element of parliamentary scrutiny after EU exit and visit our intergovernmental activity hub to find out more about intergovernmental work happening in different policy areas.  

SPICe’s quarterly intergovernmental activity updates collate information on intergovernmental meetings, common frameworks, exclusions to the market access principles of the UK Internal Market Act 2020, and legislative consent at the Scottish Parliament.  

Our highlights infographic gives an overview of activity that has taken place during quarter 1 of 2025: 

The image shows that seven interministerial meetings took place in the first quarter of 2025. It shows that one common framework has been finalised, 22 have been published provisionally, and three have not yet been published. It shows that four legislative consent motions were approved and eight legislative consent memorandums were lodged. It shows that two UK Internal Market Act exclusions are operating, and that one exclusion has been agreed in principle but is not yet operational.

Read the full quarter 1 2025 intergovernmental activity update to find individual infographics and more information about intergovernmental activity that took place in different policy areas during the previous quarter. 

Duncan Sim, SPICe Research