Reading Time: 6 minutesThis guest blog summarises the findings of the second phase of research undertaken by Dr Stephen Knox as part of the Scottish Parliament Academic Fellowship Scheme.
Category: Economy & Finance
Fiscal sustainability: long term thinking required!
Reading Time: 6 minutesThis blog summarises the SFC’s fiscal sustainability report and its implications for the pubic policy debate in Scotland.
From tiny acorns, mighty net zero economies grow? Carbon capture and storage in Scotland
Reading Time: 6 minutesThis blog explores the background to carbon capture, utilisation and storage, the proposals for the development of a Scottish Cluster, and what progress has been made so far
UK Budget 2023: the Hunt for growth
Reading Time: 5 minutesThis blog summarises key measures from yesterday’s UK Budget and the implications for Scotland.
Green freeports in Scotland: opportunities and challenges as we transition to a net zero economy
Reading Time: 7 minutesOn 13 January 2023 the Scottish and UK governments announced that the Inverness and Cromarty Firth and Forth Green Freeports had been jointly selected to
Transparency and the Scottish Budget
Reading Time: 9 minutesThis blog summarises issues around the transparency of Scottish budgetary information.
New UK trade agreements – an introduction
Reading Time: 7 minutesFollowing 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 minutesThe 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 minutesThis 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 minutesIntroduction Energy prices have been particularly volatile over the last 18 months. The policy response from the UK and Scottish Governments, which attempts to alleviate