Reading Time: 3 minutes List of ombudsmen and commissioners to help navigate complaints.
As another Budget Bill is about to pass…what comes next?
Reading Time: 5 minutes Next week, the Budget Bill for 2025-26 looks certain to pass. This blog considers this year’s Budget deal, and what comes next. Â
How does the Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) (Scotland) Act affect people living in safe access zones?
Reading Time: 3 minutes This blog explores the implications of the Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) (Scotland) Act 2024 for people resident within a safe access zone. It outlines
Labour market update: February 2025
Reading Time: < 1 minute Sources: UK Labour Market: February 2025 and Labour market in the regions of the UK: February 2025 For constituency-level labour market statistics, please visit the labour market in Scotland
Understanding the Increase in Scotland’s Arts and Culture Budgets
Reading Time: 6 minutes A look at the Scottish Government’s increased funding for arts and culture.
How is Scotland Performing?
Reading Time: 5 minutes This blog looks at how Scotland is performing against the 81 National Indicators in the National Performance Framework.
Whatever happened to NHS performance reporting?
Reading Time: 5 minutes The Scottish Government assesses NHS performance via a performance contract with NHS Boards. The Local Delivery Plan (LDP) guidance 2015-16 set out the LDP standards,
Intergovernmental activity update: Q4 2024Â
Reading Time: < 1 minute SPICe has published a new quarterly intergovernmental activity update, which covers quarter 4 (October to December) of 2024.
The 2025-26 Budget in 10 charts
Reading Time: 2 minutes This blog summarises some of the main points emerging from the 2025-26 Scottish Budget, which was published on 4 December 2024. For more detail and context, take a look at the Financial Scrutiny Unit’s Budget briefing.
Scottish Government responses to pre-Budget scrutiny: all smiles, no substance?
Reading Time: 8 minutes This blog looks back at the recommendations made by committees during pre-budget scrutiny 2025-26 and the impact of committee scrutiny on the Scottish Budget 2025-26.