Business Bulletin 1999-2011

Minutes of Proceedings 1999-2011

Journal of Parliamentary Proceedings Sessions 1 & 2

Committees Sessions 1, 2 & 3

Annual reports

Remit

The Committee has agreed the following remit for this inquiry:

To review Executive spending on deprivation, and to assess the efficiency and effectiveness of such expenditure and its coherence and consistency as cross-cutting issues, and to make recommendations, where necessary, to improve Executive performance.'

Call for Evidence

On 4 July 2005, the Finance Committee of the Scottish Parliament issued an initial call for evidence from interested parties to its inquiry into deprivation. The closing date for receipt of evidence was 30 September 2005.

• Press release on the call for evidence 4 July 2005

Report

The Committee considered and agreed the draft report on this inquiry at its meeting on the 28 March 2006. The Committee’s report was published on the 13 April 2006.  

• 5th Report, 2006: Cross-cutting Expenditure Review of Deprivation

• Press release on the Committee's report 13 April 2006

• Scottish Executive interim response to 5th report 2006, Cross-cutting Expenditure Review of Deprivation (pdf 39.14KB)
• Scottish Executive cover letter on final response to 5th report 2006 (pdf 48.25KB)
• Scottish Executive final repsonse to 5th report 2006, Cross cutting expenditure review of deprivation (pdf 73.80KB)

Commissioned Research

The Committee commissioned a piece of desk research on the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation. The research was carried out by Professor Glen Bramley and is available here.

• Research on Scotland's Index Of Multiple Deprivation by Professor Glen Bramley

Committee Papers

Below is a list of papers (all of which are pdf files) considered by the Committee in setting up the inquiry.

• Cross-cutting Expenditure Review of Deprivation: Paper by the Finance Committee Budget Adviser (pdf 353.63KB)
• Cross-cutting Expenditure Review of Deprivation: Response from the Scottish Executive (pdf 296.44KB)
• Deprivation Funding in England: Paper by SPICe (pdf 72.25KB)
• Supplementary Note on Community Regeneration Funding: Paper by the Committee's Budget Adviser (pdf 19.09KB)

Useful links

The following links may be of interest. The Scottish Parliament is not responsible for any of the content of the external internet sites.

• SPICe briefing on the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (pdf file, July 2004)
• SPICe briefing on Social Inclusion and the European Union (pdf file, March 2003)
• Scottish Executive webpages on Closing the Opportunity Gap (external link)
• Scottish Centre for Research on Social Justice (external link)
• Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2004 (external link)
• Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2004 Summary Technical Report (external link)
• Scottish Executive webpages on Social Focus on Deprived Areas 2005 (external link)

If there are any links which you think could be added to this list, please email them to us