Category: Culture & Sport
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The new General Medical Services (GMS) (GP) Contract: so what will be different?
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This post comes as the Health and Sport Committee are presented with the Regulations that bring in the new GMS (General Medical Services) contract. The…
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Guest blog – Data is everywhere
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As with all guest blogs on SPICe Spotlight, what follows are the views of the author, Brian Hills, Head of Data at The Data Lab…
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Apples and oranges? Why it’s difficult to compare Scottish and English local government funding
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The Financial Scrutiny Unit is often asked to make Scotland vs England comparisons on various financial measures. When it comes to local government, comparing the…
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Electoral Reform
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As the 2016 joint interim report on electoral law produced by the Law Commissions in the UK showed, the legislation governing elections is extremely complicated…
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Financial Transactions: ‘real’ money?
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In recent years, the Scottish Government has received substantial sums from the UK Government known as ‘Financial Transactions’ (FTs). To date, the Scottish Government has…
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Budget 2018-19 – final allocations to local authorities
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At the beginning of February I shared an update to the local government finance settlement at Stage 1 of the Budget Bill 2018-19. The figures…
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Scottish Lobbying Register goes live on Monday 12 March
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Lobbying has a long and controversial history. For some, lobbying is synonymous with corruption, impropriety and an imbalance of power between big business interests and…
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The Scottish Government’s Affordable Housing Supply Target
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Increasing the supply of affordable housing is a key policy aim of the Scottish Government. The term “affordable housing” is not well defined but in…
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Devolved disability benefits: how might entitlement be assessed?
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Control over some disability benefits (including personal independence payment (PIP), disability living allowance (DLA) and industrial injuries benefits, amongst others) will soon be devolved to…
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Gross Value Added (GVA) and Scotland’s sectors
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What is GVA? Gross Value Added (GVA) is a key indicator of the state of the whole economy, an important performance measure, and helps inform…
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Guest blog – Migration in post-Brexit Scotland
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Dr Paulina Trevena introduces a SPICe and University of Glasgow research project ‘Attracting and retaining migrants in post-Brexit Scotland: is a social integration strategy the…
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Budget Bill Stage 3 – the final parliamentary hurdle
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The Budget for financial year 2018-19 passed its final parliamentary hurdles on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. The ‘Rate Resolution’ debate and vote on…