The Bill enables the Parliament to make provision by resolution for payments to registered political parties for the purpose of assisting members of the Parliament who are connected with the parties to perform their Parliamentary duties. The Bill and accompanying documents can be found here.
Current Status of the Bill
This Committee Bill was introduced by the Bill Kidd MSP on behalf of the Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee on 24 June 2020.
Stage 1
At Stage 1, a Committee Bill is not referred to a lead committee for a report on its general principles. The Finance and Constitution Committee will consider and report on the Financial Memorandum and the DPLR Committee must report on any provisions conferring power to make subordinate legislation, or conferring power on the Scottish Ministers to issue any directions, guidance or code of practice. Once those committees have reported to the Parliament, the Stage 1 debate will take place.
Financial Memorandum
As with all Bills, the Finance and Constitution Committee invites written evidence on the estimated financial implications of the Bill as set out in its accompanying Financial Memorandum (FM).
The Financial Memorandum (FM) published alongside the Bill sets out the estimated costs of introducing the legislation and the additional receipts that are expected to be generated as a result of the changes proposed. Before making a submission, please read our privacy notice about submitting your views to a Committee. This tells you about how we process your personal data.
Please note that in most cases your written submission will be published on the Scottish Parliament's website and may be quoted in the Committee's report or in Committee meetings (which are public and broadcast). Please use the questionnaire provided for your submission.
FM Questionnaire
The deadline to submit your views is Friday, 7 August 2020
We welcome written views in English, Gaelic, Scots or any other language. Due to the time required to process and analyse evidence, late submissions will only be accepted with the agreement of the Committee Clerk.
Written responses should be sent electronically, to [email protected].
Ideally submissions should be no more than four sides of A4.