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10 Nov 17
Deputy prime minister Damian Green is facing complaints at today’s British-Irish Council meeting from the devolved governments that they have been sidelined by British ministers in the...
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20 Oct 17
Nicola Sturgeon has asked the Scottish public for ideas about how the new Scottish National Investment Bank could help grow the country’s economy and spread the benefits across society.
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11 Oct 17
Nicola Sturgeon has announced plans for a public-owned energy company in Scotland, in her address to the SNP party conference.
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9 Oct 17
The Scottish Government will lift the public sector pay cap as promised but how much it can do this relies on the chancellor, Derek Mackay said today.
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9 Oct 17
Scottish ministers have been forced to admit that their controversial plans to halve duties for airlines serving Scotland’s airports have hit a Brexit-related snag.
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4 Oct 17
The Scottish Government has imposed what amounts to a total ban on fracking, a decision that puts it at odds both with UK energy policy and the owners of Scotland’s biggest industrial complex.
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29 Sep 17
Scotland’s auditor general has given the Scottish Government a clean bill of health for the accounting and management of its £34bn budget in 2016-17, but warned ministers that they will...
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26 Sep 17
Scotland’s first two devolved taxes, on property sales and landfill, fell short of projected revenues in 2016-17 by more than £50m.
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22 Sep 17
An alliance of aid charities has urged the Scottish Government to respond to developing world climate catastrophes by ramping up its programme for reducing greenhouse emissions.
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15 Sep 17
Scottish education secretary John Swinney faces mounting pressure – including from within his own party – to intervene over a 17% pay rise for a top college executive at a time when pay...
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13 Sep 17
Scotland’s finance secretary has announced he will boost investment incentives through reform of the business rates regime north of the border.
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5 Sep 17
First minister Nicola Sturgeon has confirmed that Scotland will lift the 1% public sector pay cap next year.
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4 Sep 17
Union leaders have today warned Scottish ministers to brace themselves for above-inflation pay demands across the public sector.
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29 Aug 17
Contractors have handed over Scotland’s biggest public infrastructure project in a generation to the country’s first minister Nicola Sturgeon.
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23 Aug 17
The notional deficit in Scotland’s public finances has fallen by £1.3bn over the past year, but still stands at 8.3% of GDP, more than three times the UK level, according to the annual...
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21 Aug 17
Scotland’s public finances are especially vulnerable to damage from the Brexit process, and ministers should be putting contingencies in place now to absorb future economic shocks, CIPFA has...
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8 Aug 17
Scottish ministers are to use their new welfare powers to create a benefit aimed at helping people who face financial difficulties in meeting funeral costs.
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7 Jul 17
The group set up to review Scotland’s budget process has urged radical reform to reflect that increased proportions of money will now be raised in the country.
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27 Jun 17
A second referendum on Scottish independence will be put on hold until after Brexit, Scotland’s first minister and SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon has said.
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16 Jun 17
Scottish education secretary John Swinney has announced a radical shake-up of schools governance and support.
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27 Apr 17
MSPs from across the political spectrum joined forces to lambast the Scottish Conservatives over their support for the UK government‘s two-child cap on child benefit entitlement.
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5 Apr 17
Brexit could bring Scotland’s plans for a new generation of social housing grinding to a halt, leaders of the Scottish housing association movement have warned.
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31 Mar 17
The leader of Scotland’s biggest council told the CIPFA Scotland conference of his vision for a digital future in which poorer families are helped to develop internet capabilities and...
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30 Mar 17
Scottish finance secretary Derek Mackay has told the CIPFA Scotland conference he expects Scottish tax policies to diverge increasingly from those of the rest of the UK.
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29 Mar 17
The Scottish Parliament has formally demanded a second referendum on independence to be held within two years, a day after the prime minister told first minister Nicola Sturgeon that now was not the...
10 Nov 17Deputy prime minister Damian Green is facing complaints at today’s British-Irish Council meeting from the devolved governments that they have been sidelined by British ministers in the...
9 Oct 17The Scottish Government will lift the public sector pay cap as promised but how much it can do this relies on the chancellor, Derek Mackay said today.
9 Oct 17Scottish ministers have been forced to admit that their controversial plans to halve duties for airlines serving Scotland’s airports have hit a Brexit-related snag.
4 Oct 17The Scottish Government has imposed what amounts to a total ban on fracking, a decision that puts it at odds both with UK energy policy and the owners of Scotland’s biggest industrial complex.
29 Sep 17Scotland’s auditor general has given the Scottish Government a clean bill of health for the accounting and management of its £34bn budget in 2016-17, but warned ministers that they will...
26 Sep 17Scotland’s first two devolved taxes, on property sales and landfill, fell short of projected revenues in 2016-17 by more than £50m.
22 Sep 17An alliance of aid charities has urged the Scottish Government to respond to developing world climate catastrophes by ramping up its programme for reducing greenhouse emissions.
15 Sep 17Scottish education secretary John Swinney faces mounting pressure – including from within his own party – to intervene over a 17% pay rise for a top college executive at a time when pay...
4 Sep 17Union leaders have today warned Scottish ministers to brace themselves for above-inflation pay demands across the public sector.
23 Aug 17The notional deficit in Scotland’s public finances has fallen by £1.3bn over the past year, but still stands at 8.3% of GDP, more than three times the UK level, according to the annual...
21 Aug 17Scotland’s public finances are especially vulnerable to damage from the Brexit process, and ministers should be putting contingencies in place now to absorb future economic shocks, CIPFA has...
8 Aug 17Scottish ministers are to use their new welfare powers to create a benefit aimed at helping people who face financial difficulties in meeting funeral costs.
7 Jul 17The group set up to review Scotland’s budget process has urged radical reform to reflect that increased proportions of money will now be raised in the country.
27 Apr 17MSPs from across the political spectrum joined forces to lambast the Scottish Conservatives over their support for the UK government‘s two-child cap on child benefit entitlement.
5 Apr 17Brexit could bring Scotland’s plans for a new generation of social housing grinding to a halt, leaders of the Scottish housing association movement have warned.
31 Mar 17The leader of Scotland’s biggest council told the CIPFA Scotland conference of his vision for a digital future in which poorer families are helped to develop internet capabilities and...
30 Mar 17Scottish finance secretary Derek Mackay has told the CIPFA Scotland conference he expects Scottish tax policies to diverge increasingly from those of the rest of the UK.
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