Reading Time: 3 minutes After yesterday’s Stage 1 announcements, we have published three blogs on the Budget on SPICe Spotlight today – a blog on income tax, a blog
Budget Bill Stage 1 – What are the changes to income tax?
Reading Time: 3 minutes What was proposed at Stage 1? Stage 1 of the Budget Bill for 2018-19 was debated at Holyrood yesterday afternoon. The Government reached a deal
Budget Bill Stage 1 – Deal!
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Budget Bill for next year was debated at Holyrood yesterday. Derek Mackay, the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Constitution provided details of the deal
Private financing of Scotland’s infrastructure
Reading Time: 4 minutes The National Audit Office recently published a report looking at the role of the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) and its replacement, PF2, in funding infrastructure
Brexit – Negotiating a transition
Reading Time: 5 minutes Both the EU and the UK agree that a transitional phase governing the EU-UK relationship is needed to govern the time between the UK leaving
SPICe FAQ – Paper Bag Charges
Reading Time: 3 minutes In the last few weeks we have received a number of enquiries from constituency offices across Scotland asking whether paper bags are exempt from the
Scotland’s exports
Reading Time: 3 minutes Increasing the value of Scotland’s exports is extremely important to the Scottish Government. Internationalisation is, after-all, one of its “4 I” economic priorities (as set
The new private residential tenancy
Reading Time: 3 minutes On 1 December 2017, the first major change to private rented tenancy legislation in Scotland in almost 30 years took effect. From that date, the
SPICe FAQ – Accessing GP records
Reading Time: 2 minutes SPICe regularly receives enquiries relating to constituents’ concerns over their health records held by their GPs. We were recently asked what the legislative basis is
Marine plastic pollution
Reading Time: 4 minutes The problem of marine plastic pollution featured heavily in the media in 2017. Powerful imagery such as the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Award entry