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Finance and Public Administration Committee

Intergovernmental Relations: Finance and Written Agreements

Finance

Intergovernmental relations (IGR) are the relationships between different governments within the UK, for example, when ministers from the Scottish Government meet their counterparts in the UK Government. 

When such meetings involve Scottish Government Ministers responsible for Finance the Scottish Government writes to this Committee notifying it of the meeting and what was discussed.  This enables the Committee to provide stronger and more transparent parliamentary scrutiny.


Written agreements

The Committee has written agreements on the budget process with the Scottish Government and the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body.

These documents set out an understanding between the Finance and Public Administration Committee and the respective bodies on the administrative arrangements relating to the scrutiny of the annual draft budget.

Written Agreement with the Scottish Government (258KB, pdf) posted 27 September 2021

Written Agreement with the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body (56KB, pdf) posted 27 September 2021

Correspondence

The Committee has sent and received the following correspondence during the inquiry:

Senedd Finance Committee Inquiry into Fiscal Intergovernmental Relations - Letter of 28 May 2024

Letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government to the Convener of 28 May 2024

Finance: Interministerial Standing Committee meeting of 25 January 2024

Letter from the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Finance to the Convener of 20 February 2024

Finance: Interministerial Standing Committee meeting of 20 September 2023

Letter from the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Finance to the Convener of 29 September 2023

Finance: Interministerial Standing Committee meeting of 22 June 2023

Letter from the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Finance to the Convener of 23 June 2023

Finance: Inter-ministerial Standing Committee meeting on 9 February 2023

Letter from the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for COVID Recovery to the Convener of 24 February 2023

Finance: Interministerial Standing Committee meeting of 15 June 2022

Letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Economy to the Convener of 20 June 2022

Finance: Interministerial Standing Committee meeting of 21 March 2022

Letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Economy to the Convener of 11 April 2022

Finance Ministers' Quadrilateral - January 2022

Letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and the Economy to the Convener of 24 January 2022

Finance Ministers Quadrilateral

Letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Economy of 23 July 2021