Chamber and committees

Pre-Budget Scrutiny 2024-25

Background

The Criminal Justice Committee undertook pre-budget scrutiny in advance of the Scottish Government’s 2024-25 budget. The key focus was on the financial challenges that face organisations working in the criminal justice sector and the adequacy of budgets that may be proposed when the Scottish Government publishes its budget. The pressures on capital spending and investment were of particular interest to the Committee.

The Criminal Justice Committee wanted to hear:

• Views on the extent to which spending priorities in the criminal justice sector were being met in 2023/24 and whether these continue to be the right priorities.
• Views on the spending priorities and challenges in the next financial year (2024/25) and whether the spending allocated to your organisation and/or the criminal justice sector more widely is sufficient.
• Views on the adequacy of capital spending budget allocations and investment.
• Any other comments on the budget situation in the criminal justice sector.

Your views

The Committee's call for views closed on Tuesday 12 September 2023.

Read the published responses

Report

The Committee outlined its recommendations in a letter to the Cabinet Secretary for Justice and Home Affairs. The letter can be found in the Correspondence section of this page.