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Food, glorious food (Nation)
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An update on the Good Food Nation ambitions for Scotland
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Home Reports – what are they and what might change?
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A look at the background to Home Reports and some of the main enquiries SPICe receives about them.
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Scotland’s changing housing landscape
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A look at 20 years of housing in the Scottish Parliament.
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How to count to net-zero
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Counting to zero is easy. But budgeting for zero carbon, that’s more difficult.
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Scotland – A Trading Nation?
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This blog gives an overview of the recently released Scottish Government export plan.
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The proposed Workplace Parking Levy
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John Finnie MSP, supported by the Scottish Government, has introduced amendments to the Transport (Scotland) Bill that would allow Scottish local authorities to introduce a…
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It was 20 years ago today….
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A look at the 1999 Scottish Parliament election results
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A bridge over troubled (constitutional) water?
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With the First Minister’s statement on 24 April 2019, the constitutional questions which have been, to some extent, in Brexit’s shadow, were cast firmly back…
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The fight for the future of fish
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The fishing industry “is engaged in a battle in parliament”. It wants to prevent the UK Fisheries Bill from including a commitment that all fish…
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Net-zero and the climate emergency
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How did the net-zero report come about? In October 2018 the UK and devolved governments asked their independent expert advisers, the Committee on Climate Change…
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Scotland’s population: Growing more slowly and ageing
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National Records of Scotland (NRS) published their Mid-2018 Population Estimates for Scotland on 25 April. They showed that the total Scottish population had reached a…
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Minimum Unit Pricing for Alcohol: How will we know if it works?
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Today marks the first anniversary of the introduction of minimum unit pricing for alcohol. The policy had a stormy journey through Parliament and questions are…
