Author: SPICe
-
A review of this year’s Budget process
Reading time: 4 minutes
This blog provides some reflections on the 2024-25 Budget process.
-
Ukraine visa schemes – what has changed?
Reading time: 4 minutes
On 19 February 2024, the UK Government made changes to three visa schemes it had established in the wake of Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine.…
-
Does the end of Stage 1 bring clarity for the proposed National Care Service?
Reading time: 5 minutes
The National Care Service (Scotland) Bill (NCS) has made unsteady progress through its first Parliamentary stage,since its introduction in June 2022. More than 18 months…
-
Scottish Budget 2024-25: All about the data
Reading time: 2 minutes
This blog provides an interactive tool for comparing Scottish Budgets for 2023-24 and 2024-25.
-
Moving on from the rent cap for private tenants – what is planned next?
Reading time: 6 minutes
This blog provides an overview of how the proposed law on rent adjudication at the end of the rent cap and the temporary changes that…
-
Decarbonising heating in Scotland: current Scottish and UK policy
Reading time: 5 minutes
This blog sets out the wider UK and Scottish Government policies supporting the decarbonisation of heating buildings.
-
Decarbonising heating in Scotland: the proposals for a Heat in Buildings Bill.
Reading time: 8 minutes
This blog sets out the details of the Scottish Government’s Heat in Building’s Bill consultation.
-
Caught adrift: what next for marine conservation in Scotland?
Reading time: 8 minutes
This blog explores what the future might hold for marine conservation in Scotland with a focus on how communities and local stakeholders might become more…
-
Below Average Resources – new poverty measure
Reading time: 9 minutes
The UK Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is developing a new poverty measure called Below Average Resources (BAR) that closely reproduces the Social Metrics…
-
Belgium’s presidency of the Council of the European Union – bringing an end to the EU’s five year cycle
Reading time: 6 minutes
Belgium assumed the presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU) on 1 January 2024 taking over from Spain which held the presidency for…
-
Two years into the reform of intergovernmental arrangements – has the new approach been implemented?
Reading time: 8 minutes
Background Following a review of intergovernmental relations, the UK Government and devolved governments agreed to reform existing arrangements in January 2022. Read a previous SPICe…
-
Social Security Budget
Reading time: 4 minutes
Social security spending makes up 13% of the entire budget In 2024-25, the Scottish Fiscal Commission forecast social security benefit spend of £6,283 million. This…