Reading Time: 5 minutesThis four-part blog series is intended to help MSPs and their staff with queries they receive on student support eligibility and entitlements. It covers support for
Student support and fees part 2: Support for Further Education students
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis four-part blog series is intended to help MSPs and their staff with queries they receive on student support eligibility and entitlements. It covers support for
Student support and fees part 1: Eligibility and applying for funding
Reading Time: 4 minutesThis four-part blog series is intended to help MSPs and their staff with queries they receive on student support eligibility and entitlements. It covers support for
Labour market update: June 2026
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMonthly update on the labour market in Scotland.
Membership of committees
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis short blog sets out the membership of the committees of the Session 7 Parliament.
Explainer: assimilated law
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis blog briefly explains the background to a body of domestic law called ‘assimilated law’ and looks at how it can be amended.
SPICe Hub: how devolution works
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAs the Session 7 Parliament gets underway, SPICe will publish a series of blogs to help to explain how devolution works. This mini blogpost provides a central hub for this work to assist Members and others.
Thinking about transport
Reading Time: 8 minutesThis post briefly introduces some key transport policy concepts, with a view to informing debate on transport matters in the new parliamentary session, with a particular focus on road transport.
Scottish Parliament Committees
Reading Time: 5 minutesThis short blog provides information on the names and remits of Session 7 committees as well as the size of each and the political party of the convener and deputy convener. There are 16 committees (seven mandatory and nine subject committees).
Election 2026 – results in full
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis blog allows users to explore the results from the Scottish Parliament General Election in 2026. We also provide historic data on the number of