Reading Time: 15 minutes On 18 April 2024 the Scottish Government announced plans to make ‘minor’ changes to climate change legislation, and a climate change policy package which includes
Category: Economy & Finance
Labour market visual update: April 2024
Reading Time: < 1 minute Visual summary of the latest labour market indicators for Scotland.
Is Scotland going to meet its child poverty targets?
Reading Time: 4 minutes The latest statistics show that Scotland is far from achieving its child poverty targets.
Nature’s Balance Sheet – How does Natural Capital Finance work?
Reading Time: 8 minutes This is the second blog in a series of three exploring natural capital finance in Scotland – what it is, why there is demand for it, and what the key issues are.
Nature’s Balance Sheet – What is Natural Capital Finance, what is needed, and where should it come from?
Reading Time: 6 minutes This is the first blog in a series of three exploring natural capital finance in Scotland – what it is, why there is demand for it, and what the key issues are.
Annual report from the Office for the Internal Market 2023-24
Reading Time: 7 minutes On 20 March 2024, the Office for the Internal Market (‘OIM’) published its second annual report on the operation of the internal market for 2023-24.
Cost crisis: Constituency support for enquiries related to the cost of living and the cost of doing business
Reading Time: 5 minutes This blog contains up-to-date links to a selection of trusted and official external sources of information relating to support available for individuals and organisations to help with the cost crisis.
Public sector pensions and the McCloud remedy
Reading Time: 3 minutes This blog looks at the impact of, and timeline for implementing, the McCloud remedy in terms of public sector pensions.
Tackling the cost of living – Scottish Government Policy
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Scottish Government has highlighted around £3 billion of spending per year on policies that help tackle the cost of living. This blog looks at those policies and how spending on them has changed over three years. It also looks at how people’s views of their own household finances have changed over the last two years.
UK Budget: the Hunt for votes?
Reading Time: 3 minutes This blog summarises today’s UK Budget and the implications for Scotland’s budget.