Reading Time: 4 minutes An update on the Good Food Nation ambitions for Scotland
Home Reports – what are they and what might change?
Reading Time: 4 minutes A look at the background to Home Reports and some of the main enquiries SPICe receives about them.
Scotland’s changing housing landscape
Reading Time: 7 minutes A look at 20 years of housing in the Scottish Parliament.
How to count to net-zero
Reading Time: 4 minutes Counting to zero is easy. But budgeting for zero carbon, that’s more difficult.
Scotland – A Trading Nation?
Reading Time: 5 minutes This blog gives an overview of the recently released Scottish Government export plan.
The proposed Workplace Parking Levy
Reading Time: 5 minutes John Finnie MSP, supported by the Scottish Government, has introduced amendments to the Transport (Scotland) Bill that would allow Scottish local authorities to introduce a
It was 20 years ago today….
Reading Time: 3 minutes A look at the 1999 Scottish Parliament election results
A bridge over troubled (constitutional) water?
Reading Time: 4 minutes With the First Minister’s statement on 24 April 2019, the constitutional questions which have been, to some extent, in Brexit’s shadow, were cast firmly back
The fight for the future of fish
Reading Time: 4 minutes The fishing industry “is engaged in a battle in parliament”. It wants to prevent the UK Fisheries Bill from including a commitment that all fish
Net-zero and the climate emergency
Reading Time: 5 minutes How did the net-zero report come about? In October 2018 the UK and devolved governments asked their independent expert advisers, the Committee on Climate Change