In January 2025, Culture Counts were invited to submit a response to inform the Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee’s scrutiny of the Scottish Government’s budget regarding the culture spend. The Committee published their Pre-Budget Scrutiny 2025-26: Funding for Culture on 11 October and, following the publication of the Scottish Budget: 2025-26, invited a submission from Culture Counts in response.

Our written evidence, and a video of Fiona Sturgeon Shea, Chair of Culture Counts Steering Group, giving evidence about this submission in person at Scottish Parliament, is available at https://culturecounts.scot/news/2025/1/6/scrutiny-of-culture-budget-submission-to-ceeac.