Reading Time: 6 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.
Category: Economy & Finance
New UK trade agreements – an introduction
Reading Time: 7 minutes Following the UK’s departure from the EU, the UK Government has the power to seek to negotiate and conclude its own trade deals. This blog explains what trade agreements are, how they are made, and sets out the current state of play of the UK’s trade agreement negotiations.
Levelling Up: the view from Scotland
Reading Time: 7 minutes The successful bids for Round 2 of the Levelling Up Fund were announced by the UK government on 19 January. This blog looks at the approach to funding and the successful bids in Scotland.
Budget Bingo – common themes in Committees’ pre-budget scrutiny
Reading Time: 8 minutes This blog continues our exploration of human rights budgeting by looking at the committee scrutiny process and how that has changed over the years, then identifying the common themes across the pre-budget letters and reports produced by 12 committees in autumn 2022, and where these themes fit within the three principles of human rights budgeting.
Energy price crisis – current policy and outlook for 2023
Reading Time: 6 minutes Introduction Energy prices have been particularly volatile over the last 18 months. The policy response from the UK and Scottish Governments, which attempts to alleviate
The three golden rules? Mainstreaming transparency, participation and accountability in the Scottish Budget
Reading Time: 10 minutes This blog expands on SPICe’s 2023-24 Budget Briefing, explaining in more detail what human rights budgeting means in practice, what stakeholders have asked for from the Scottish Government, and how the Government has measured up against those asks in the 2023-24 Budget and documentation.
Scottish Budget 2023-24: Pulling the income tax lever
Reading Time: 10 minutes An initial analysis of the 2023-24 Scottish Budget
Guest blog: Does the Scottish Budget enable human rights?
Reading Time: 5 minutes The way that governments raise, allocate and spend money affects how people can realise their human rights in practice. With new human rights legislation on the horizon, this guest blog looks at how the Scottish budget might be analysed through a human rights lens.
Winter has come: what to look out for in this week’s Scottish budget
Reading Time: 5 minutes This blog looks ahead to Thursday’s Scottish budget for 2023-24.
UK Autumn Budget 2022 – Winter is coming
Reading Time: 7 minutes This blog provides analysis of yesterday’s UK Autumn Statement and some of the implications for Scotland.