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How do the Scottish Government's capital spending plans affect you?
Created: 22/04/2024
News/Events Category: ConsultationsEvery year the Scottish Parliament looks at the Scottish Government’s spending plans and how it raises taxes.
Ahead of the next Budget, the Equalities, Civil Justice and Human Rights Committee has chosen to look at:
- Transparency in Scottish Government capital funding decision-making
- The impact of capital spending on the wellbeing and equality of citizens
The Scottish Parliament would like to hear people's views on how decisions about capital spending affect them. Hearing from people across Scotland helps them to get a better understanding of which decisions made by the Scottish Government are, and are not, working.
What is capital spending?
When people talk about budgets, they often use words like “resource” and “capital”.
- Revenue or resource - funding that is to be used for day-to-day spending like salaries or fuel bills.
- Capital - spending on things that will endure, like a building, or maintaining roads or paths.
Different types of capital spending include:
- Building or developing and maintaining public buildings like schools, libraries, hospitals, prisons
- Building or developing and maintaining public spaces like town centres, green spaces and play parks
- Building or developing and maintaining infrastructure like roads, cycleways and public transport facilities and vehicles
- Refurbishing buildings and retrofitting them to make them more environmentally efficient or accessible to people with disabilities
The amount of capital funding the Scottish Government has depends on how much is allocated to it from the UK Government. However, the Scottish Government can also fund capital investment using its revenue budget and, within limits, can borrow to fund capital spending.
What this survey will ask
This survey will ask you three multiple choice questions about yourself and whether you have shared your views before.
It will then ask you five questions, which give you space to answer in as much or as little detail as you like. The last question will also ask you to share your priorities.
There are also some multiple choice questions at the end that help us to understand more about who has answered our survey.
It should take around 5-10 minutes to complete this survey.
They welcome written views in English, Gaelic, Scots or any other language.
Click here to take the survey.
This survey closes on Monday 06 May 2024.
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