Reading Time: 5 minutes In 2023-24 the amount paid out in devolved social security benefits is forecast to increase by around £1 billion – from £4.2 billion in 2022-23
Tag: Finance
Levelling Up: the view from Scotland
Reading Time: 7 minutes The 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 minutes This 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.
The three golden rules? Mainstreaming transparency, participation and accountability in the Scottish Budget
Reading Time: 10 minutes This blog expands on SPICe’s 2023-24 Budget Briefing, explaining in more detail what human rights budgeting means in practice, what stakeholders have asked for from the Scottish Government, and how the Government has measured up against those asks in the 2023-24 Budget and documentation.
Scottish Budget 2023-24: Pulling the income tax lever
Reading Time: 10 minutes An initial analysis of the 2023-24 Scottish Budget
Winter has come: what to look out for in this week’s Scottish budget
Reading Time: 5 minutes This blog looks ahead to Thursday’s Scottish budget for 2023-24.
Climate finance: generating the funds needed to address climate change
Reading Time: 4 minutes With COP27 about to end this blog sets out some of the key issues relating to how the actions needed in response to climate change might be funded.
UK Autumn Budget 2022 – Winter is coming
Reading Time: 7 minutes This blog provides analysis of yesterday’s UK Autumn Statement and some of the implications for Scotland.
What is Loss and Damage and why does it matter?
Reading Time: 5 minutes One of the key sticking points in negotiations, and ultimately unresolved issues from the 26th UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow was the issue
Emergency Budget Review 2022 – inflation implications laid bare
Reading Time: 6 minutes This blog provides analysis of yesterday’s 2022-23 Emergency Budget review.