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24 Feb 21
The UK government refused a request from Scottish finance secretary Kate Forbes for £1.7bn of additional funding to support the Holyrood administration’s Budget for 2021-22, it has emerged.
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17 Feb 21
The Scottish Government has will extend the 100% business rates holiday for the whole of the next financial year, following further UK government funding.
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28 Jan 21
Local authorities in Scotland are set to receive £11.6bn from Holyrood next year, an increase of around 3% – plus £90m to freeze council tax – according to draft budget proposals.
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26 Jan 21
Funding from the Scottish Government will only meet between 60% and 70% of overall financial pressures identified by councils, according to the country’s local government spending watchdog.
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4 Dec 20
NHS Tayside’s high running costs remain a risk, although the health board has improved its financial management, the Scottish spending watchdog has said.
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30 Nov 20
The Scottish Government is to pump an additional £200m of funding into its Affordable Housing Supply Programme next year, to help the construction sector’s recovery from Covid-19.
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23 Nov 20
The Scottish Government has launched the Scottish National Investment Bank, the first development bank in the UK.
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28 Oct 20
Scottish GDP fell by 19.4% during the second quarter of this year, according to statistics released by the Scottish Government.
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8 Oct 20
A new package of funding and financing flexibilities for local authorities in Scotland will allow councils to use capital receipts to meet funding pressures.
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28 Aug 20
Moray Council risks depleting its entire fund reserves in just four years as it attempts to offset annual deficits, the Scottish Accounts Commission has warned.
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27 Aug 20
Scottish debt rose to £15.1bn last year, around £2bn more than last year, according to statistics released by the Scottish Government.
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7 Aug 20
The Scottish government will move forward its review of its fiscal framework forward a year, in a bid to help the country’s recovery from Covid-19.
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1 Jul 20
An £80bn stimulus package is needed to regenerate the economy and reduce inequality in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, the Scottish Government has said.
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22 Jun 20
Scotland must have greater fiscal autonomy to deal with the economic fall-out of the coronavirus pandemic, a group of economic advisors has warned.
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18 Jun 20
Scottish GDP slumped by almost a fifth during the first full month of lockdown, according to the latest provisional figures.
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26 May 20
The Scottish Government has called for greater clarity from the Treasury over coronavirus-related funding after last minute grant adjustments left it with £70m less than expected.
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22 May 20
The Scottish Government has set out plans to ease lockdown restrictions from next week in a bid to begin reactivating the economy.
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15 May 20
A “precautionary” approach to lifting the lockdown in Scotland will limit the risk of a second wave of the virus north of the border, the Scottish Government has said.
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7 May 20
Elma Murray has been appointed interim chair of the Accounts Commission following the resignation of Graham Sharp.
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6 May 20
The Scottish Government has pressed for greater fiscal flexibility to allow it to manage the impact of coronavirus on the Scottish economy.
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29 Apr 20
The Scottish budget could be at risk if the coronavirus pandemic has a disproportionate fiscal impact north of the border, economists have warned.
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24 Apr 20
The Scottish Government might struggle to balance its budget this year because of funding uncertainty in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, the nation’s official forecaster has warned.
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21 Apr 20
Economic output in Scotland could fall by a third as a result of measures to tackle the coronavirus pandemic, according to the latest government commentary.
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16 Apr 20
Economists have warned against the introduction of a universal basic income across Scotland as part of a knee-jerk reaction to the coronavirus pandemic.
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14 Apr 20
Social care workers in Scotland are set to receive an immediate 3.3% pay increase, backdated to 1 April – following negotiations around increasing their pay to the real living wage.