Scotland's deputy first minister talks to PF about the importance of service integration, the impact of funding cuts and Scotland's coming fiscal powers
Scotland’s first new national taxes since 1707 came into force today as the Scottish Government’s Land and Buildings Transaction Tax, a replacement for UK Stamp Duty, and a new Landfill...
Local authorities in Scotland need to do more to set out the long-term implications of borrowing for capital projects to ensure that councillors are able to better scrutinise investment decisions,...
Auditors have called on the Scottish Government to set out proposals to improve its financial reporting to take account of the new fiscal powers being devolved to Holyrood.
Scotland’s continuing obsession with wresting powers from Westminster is in danger of hijacking the ‘more pressing’ need to devolve power down from Holyrood to local authority level...
Scotland’s current budget deficit has fallen as a percentage of gross domestic product over the last year despite lower oil revenues, according to the annual Government Expenditure...
Unprecedented pressures lie ahead for Scottish local government finances, and councils need effective long-term plans to prepare for them, the Accounts Commission for Scotland warns today in its...
Plans by the London-based parties to give the Scottish Parliament limited new powers over shaping and setting benefits could make life worse for vulnerable people and carers, the leader of Scotland’s...
Revenue Scotland, the new tax collection agency due to come into force in Scotland from April 1, is fully ready to take over, Scottish Finance Secretary John Swinney has told the UK Treasury.
Scotland’s Community Planning Partnerships (CPPs) remain inconsistent in their leadership, collaboration and scrutiny, unclear in their ambitions and uneven in their supervision, according to Audit...
A former Scottish Government cabinet minister has called for a restructuring of Scottish local government and other public bodies in response to plans to devolve significant extra powers to Holyrood.
Expanded tax powers for Holyrood will increase the importance of infrastructure spending in Scotland in the wake of the independence referendum, senior figures in the Scottish Government’s project...
The new chair of Scotland’s local government spending watchdog has told the country’s 32 councils they will have to be more innovative and open-minded about service delivery to meet renewed budgetary...
The number of staff employed by the Scottish Executive has increased by 32% since the devolved Parliament was set up in 1999, latest figures have disclosed.
