The Scottish Government has prioritised spending on healthcare, housing and social security in a budget that sought to set a positive tone in the face of looming cost pressures and a deteriorating...
Reversing the Scottish Government’s 2024-25 cuts to affordable rented homes is needed to address “spiralling” waiting lists, housing associations have warned.
The Scottish Government has been warned that its reliance on short-term budget fixes poses a significant risk to fiscal sustainability and future public service delivery.
The Scottish Government will struggle to balance its budget after tying its hands with generous public sector pay deals, Scotland’s independent economic forecaster has warned.
The Scottish Government has failed to spend over €136m in EU structural funding allocated to boost economic development north of the border, new analysis has revealed.
Scottish councils face “severe challenges” to balance their books, with cuts in expenditure of up to 8.5% required over the next three years, the nation’s spending watchdog has warned.
The Scottish Government is at risk of missing its child poverty targets after figures showed around a quarter of children still living in relative poverty.
Income tax is set to generate £700m more for the Scottish Government next year than previously expected, but only a small portion of this is from the hike for high-earners announced in this week’s...
Higher-than-expected public sector pay and meeting spending commitments will create a £1.5bn gap in Scotland’s 2024-25 budget, the Fraser of Allander Institute has warned.
Unexpected tax growth in Scotland was not enough to avoid the removal of £390m of block grant funding in 2024-25, the nation’s fiscal commission has said.
Reducing borrowing restrictions and removing limits on reserve use will give the Scottish Government more flexibility to respond to challenges arising from forecasting mistakes.
More flexible council funding and the understanding that services will be run locally “by default” are the cornerstones of the Scottish Government’s new deal with its local authorities.
Plans to sharply lower the level of child poverty in Scotland will fail without significant investment from the Scottish government, experts have warned.
Scottish council leaders have claimed the latest local government pay offer is fair and recognises the importance of the workforce, despite opposition from unions.
Scotland spent less than it might have done in the first two years of Covid-19, and the nation’s spending watchdog has urged public bodies to use the lessons learned from the pandemic to help plan...
The Scottish Government will be unable to meet its net zero ambitions without reforms to departmental governance and oversight, an influential think-tank has warned.
