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Budget scrutiny 2023/24 (The Impact of Human Rights Budgeting)

Overview

The Scottish Government is expected to publish its Budget 2023-24 in December 2022. In advance of this, our Committee is undertaking pre-budget scrutiny to influence the Scottish Government’s thinking when preparing this budget. 

The Committee is interested in how the Scottish Government will make sure equality considerations are enshrined in the budget process and are used to inform tax and spending decisions.

Your response to this call for views will inform the pre-budget scrutiny of the Committee and future oral evidence sessions.

Background

The Scottish Government published a number of fiscal documents in May 2022, which are relevant to the committee’s pre-budget scrutiny namely—

• Resource Spending Review which set out indicative spending plans for the Scottish Government through to 2026-27
• Medium-Term Financial Strategy which set out the medium-term economic and fiscal outlook and risks to the Budget
• Equality and Fairer Scotland Statement which set out a number of opportunities and challenges in the equalities area in the coming years.

In its budget scrutiny work this year, the Committee will also consider the work currently being undertaken by the SPICe Research Fellow, Rob Watts, looking at human rights budgeting and its application in the year-round budget process.

Share your views

 Thank you to everyone who responded to our call for views.

Read the responses

Read the summary of responses (307KB, pdf) posted 02 November 2022