Author: SPICe
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Assimilated EU law reform: Where does Scotland stand in early 2025?
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A look at recent updates from the UK and Scottish Governments on changes that are being made to retained EU law.
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Guest Blog: Opening Up Scrutiny – Reflections on Creativity, Collaboration, and Evidence in The Scottish Parliament
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This guest blog sets out the findings of a SPICe fellowship project with Dr Cara Broadley, Glasgow School of Art, who used an immersive Participation…
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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.
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Guest Blog: Continuously improving people’s panels at the Scottish Parliament – Lessons from our independent evaluation
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This guest blog by Iñaki Goñi and Elisabet Vives (University of Edinburgh) summarises and builds on their external evaluation of the two People’s Panels run…
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Labour market update: April 2025
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Sources: UK Labour Market: April 2025 and Labour market in the regions of the UK: April 2025 For constituency-level labour market statistics, please visit the…
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Climate change and the Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee – Arts and Culture
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This blog is one of a series that illustrate how climate change relates to policy areas covered by each subject committee. In Scotland all public…
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European structural funding in Scotland- what’s the latest?
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This blog provides an update on progress to spend Scotland’s European structural fund allocation for 2014-2020. It also sets out how structural funds have been…
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Rent adjudication – a return to the status quo
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On 1 April 2025, the temporary measures to the rent adjudication system that could limit rent increases for private rented tenants came to an end.
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Trump’s tariffs – Back to the future
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This blog looks at the potential impact on Scotland of the new tariffs announced by President Trump in the United States on 2 April 2025.
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Private healthcare in Scotland FAQs – update April 2025
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This blog provides an update to our previous blog on private healthcare use in Scotland.
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UKRI Policy Internships at the Scottish Parliament – what are they all about?
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Academic research can have a crucial role in the formation and scrutiny of policy. One of the ways in which PhD students can engage with…
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Scottish Parliament launches Areas of Research Interest pilot to support climate scrutiny
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The Scottish Parliament has launched its first Areas of Research Interest. This blog why we are keen to pilot ARIs and how researchers can engage…