Category: Health
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Public Finance Glossary
Reading time: 14 minutes
This glossary contains terms related to public finance and is intended to be used alongside SPICe briefings and blogs.
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Scottish Budget – 2025-26: Affordable housing supply
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The Scottish Government has increased funding for affordable housing with a budget of £768 million next year. This blog takes a closer look at the…
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Scottish Budget 2025-26: initial reaction
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This blog provides initial reaction to the Scottish Government’s 2025-26 Budget.
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Judicial Factors (Scotland) Bill: parliamentary consideration prior to Stage 3
Reading time: 6 minutes
This blog post provides an update on what happened at Stages 1 and 2 of the Judicial Factors (Scotland) Bill (‘the Bill’). This is in…
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What to look out for in the 2025-26 Scottish Budget
Reading time: 6 minutes
This blog summarises some of the areas to look out for in tomorrow’s 2025-26 Scottish Budget.
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What on earth are we doing here? COP29 and the connections to Scottish climate policy
Reading time: 8 minutes
A blog that considers the developments in international climate policy from this years COP29 negotiations.
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Scottish income tax – an emerging picture
Reading time: 6 minutes
Devolved income tax policy has been much debated, but evidence around its effects is still emerging. This blog looks at where uncertainty remains.
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How do the Scottish and UK assisted dying bills compare?
Reading time: 10 minutes
This coming Friday (29th November 2024), the House of Commons will debate the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill. The introduction of the Bill…
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Capital investment in Scotland and the transition to net zero
Reading time: 8 minutes
This blog considers the outlook for the 2025-26 capital budget in the context of the expected costs of the transition to net zero.
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Budget Bingo: the committees strike back – key themes in pre-budget scrutiny for 2025-26
Reading time: 10 minutes
This blog looks at the common themes across committees’ recommendations and conclusions arising from pre-budget scrutiny 2024-25.
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Post-Legislative Scrutiny: Reflecting on Session 5
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This blog post summarises the findings of a research project on the post-legislative scrutiny undertaken by the Scottish Parliament during Session 5
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Employee earnings in Scotland: explore the data.
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The Office for National Statistics’ (ONS) recently published their latest statistics from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE). We now have a tool which…