Reading Time: 7 minutesThis blog explores the AAAQ framework analysis approach to human rights spending taken by the Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee in a collaborative budget scrutiny workshop supported by the SHRC.
Tag: Parliament and Government
The people’s perspective on citizen participation in budget scrutiny
Reading Time: 8 minutesThis blog tells the story of how the Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee has included participation and deliberation in its pre-Budget scrutiny in recent years, and shares the experiences of the citizens involved.
Outcomes of the UK Internal Market Act Review
Reading Time: 15 minutesA look at the outcomes of the Review of the UK Internal Market Act 2020.
Intergovernmental activity update: Q2 2025
Reading Time: 2 minutesSPICe has published a new quarterly intergovernmental activity update, which covers quarter 2 (April to June) of 2025.
Groundhog Day – the return of EU law?
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe recent UK-EU summit saw commitments to work towards agreements which would involve the United Kingdom dynamically aligning with some EU legislation. This blog explores what dynamic alignment with EU law might mean in practice.
Climate change and the Public Audit Committee
Reading Time: 13 minutesA look at the role of the Scottish Parliament Public Audit Committee and the work of the Auditor General for Scotland with respect to climate change.
Guest blog: Where does lived experience sit in the work of the Parliament?
Reading Time: 7 minutesThis guest blog introduces and shares interim findings from a SPICe fellowship by Dr Clementine Hill O’Connor (University of Glasgow) on the role of lived experience within scrutiny at the Scottish Parliament.
Deliberative democracy in the Scottish Parliament – do we have the answers?
Reading Time: 9 minuteshis blog gives an update on work to develop an approach to embedding deliberative democracy in the work of the Scottish Parliament, and looks back to see if some of the fundamental questions raised in earlier SPICe blogs have been answered.
The Scottish Parliament’s deliberative democracy timeline
Reading Time: 4 minutesThis timeline blog lists reports, briefings, blogs and other publications which relate to deliberative democracy in the Scottish Parliament from 2017 onwards, and will be updated with new publications until the end of the current parliamentary session in March 2026.
Assimilated law reform and the Scottish Government’s EU alignment policy
Reading Time: 6 minutesHow do changes that are being made to retained EU law relate to the Scottish Government’s EU alignment policy?