Reading Time: 4 minutesA round-up of recent events around Scotland’s constitutional future.
Category: Parliament & Government
Brexit – your questions answered
Reading Time: 2 minutesA blog highlighting the publication of a SPICe briefing answering questions about the UK’s exit from the EU
Scottish Parliament Statistics: more facts, more figures and new infographics
Reading Time: 4 minutesAt the start of 2019 SPICe published the first companion blog to the annual Scottish Parliament Statistics publication, bringing parliamentary facts and figures to life
The scrutiny challenge posed by common frameworks
Reading Time: 6 minutesThis guest blog explores some of the challenges which common frameworks pose for Parliamentary scrutiny.
Is Brexit eroding the Sewel convention?
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn this guest blog Professor Nicola McEwen considers the impact of the Brexit process on the authority of the Scottish Parliament.
SPICe Post-Brexit Hub
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis blog explains what SPICe’s new post-Brexit hub is and why it’s necessary.
Sustainable development: weasel words or the heart of policy making…
Reading Time: 10 minutesIt’s been over 20 years since sustainable development was to be at the heart of Scottish decision making. Are we making enough progress?
A week’s a long time in politics
Reading Time: 5 minutesThis blog looks at how the political horizon has shifted one week on from the UK general election and explores what the developments mean for Scotland and the UK constitutionally.
‘Transformative’ change, but twin climate and biodiversity emergencies ahead: 20 years of devolved environmental policy
Reading Time: 7 minutesSPICe asked some key figures operating in the environmental sector during this period to set out their thoughts and reflect on achievements made, and outstanding challenges faced by the Scottish Parliament in the devolved area of environmental protection.
How Scotland voted: UK General Election 2019
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe UK General Election 2019 saw the electoral map of Scotland redrawn to become more yellow, with the SNP winning 13 additional seats, as shown