Author: SPICe
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Year-to-year comparisons of the Scottish Budget
Reading time: 4 minutes
This blog explains why year-to-year comparisons of the Scottish budget can be tricky – and why this matters for budget scrutiny.
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How can human rights responsibilities be used to frame budget scrutiny?
Reading time: 7 minutes
This blog explores the AAAQ framework analysis approach to human rights spending taken by the Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee in a collaborative…
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The people’s perspective on citizen participation in budget scrutiny
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This blog tells the story of how the Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee has included participation and deliberation in its pre-Budget scrutiny in…
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A closer relationship? How are UK-EU negotiations progressing?
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Following the UK-EU agreement in May 2025 to develop the relationship, this blog examines how negotiations are progressing on the proposals for linking emissions trading…
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Public Sector Pay Policy – Challenges Ahead?
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A look at the Multi-Year Pay Policy Framework ahead of the Scottish Budget.
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UK-EU negotiations on a youth experience scheme and association to Erasmus+ [Updated 17 December 2025]
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This blog looks at UK-EU youth mobility before and after EU exit and provides updates on the ongoing youth experience negotiations following the UK-EU summit.
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What is the future for international social care workers in Scotland?
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This blog highlights an urgent issue for a cohort of internationally recruited social care workers in Scotland who were employed on Health and Care Worker…
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Climate Change Plan: policies, proposals and sector summaries.
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Blog that sets out the approach to policy description in the draft Scottish climate change plan and summarises the details for each of the main…
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UK Budget 2025 – a fiscal Reev-olution?
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This blog gives an overview of the UK Budget on 26 November 2025, setting out some of the main impacts on Scotland.
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Climate Change Plan: what’s the background and what does it need to do.
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This blog covers the background to the draft climate change plan, and some of the most important statutory requirements.
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Non-Domestic Rates (Liability for Unoccupied Properties) (Scotland) Bill
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SPICe is publishing this blog post instead of the usual bill briefing due to the short time available between the Bill’s introduction and its parliamentary…
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How might the UK Budget impact the Scottish Government’s funding?
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Introduction In recent weeks there has been speculation about what, if any, tax rises the UK Chancellor might make in the Autumn Budget. Decisions on…
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