Reading Time: 5 minutes The latest picture on child poverty The Scottish Government’s latest poverty statistics show that – on the most commonly used measure of poverty – child
Tag: Economy
The (budgetary) times they are a changin’: 20 years of devolved budgets
Reading Time: 7 minutes As part of the programme to mark 20 years since the creation of the Scottish Parliament, SPICe will publish twenty “20 year” blog posts on
The EU Emissions Trading System
Reading Time: 4 minutes Introduction While the Earth’s climate has been through many cycles of warming and cooling, the current rate of surface temperature rise is unprecedented. The overwhelming
The UK’s accession to the Government Procurement Agreement of the WTO – part 2
Reading Time: 4 minutes This is the second of two blogs from Dr Filippo Fontanelli from the University of Edinburgh’s Law School. Dr Fontanelli is working in SPICe on
Budget 2019-20 – final allocations to local authorities
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s an exciting time of year – the final funding allocations for local government in 2019-20 have been published! We wrote in a recent blog
Budget Bill Stage 1 – an “unexpected” Barnett bonus
Reading Time: 3 minutes After last week’s debate on the Committees’ pre-Budget reports, the Parliament has now commenced formal consideration of the Budget Bill. The Parliament debated and voted