A £3.3bn funding package that led to Stormont being recalled will not provide long-term stability to services or public finances, new first minister Michelle O’Neill has said.
The Scottish Government has outlined plans to increase taxes on high earners and provide more funding to local authorities next year to help manage pressures stemming from the cost-of-living crisis.
The financially restrictive devolution settlement is holding back Wales’s ability to plan for the long term, an independent commission looking at the country’s future has argued.
Scottish secretary David Mundell today urged politicians to shift political debate towards the best use of Holyrood’s new fiscal powers, after finance secretary John Swinney acknowledged that...
Two-thirds of Scots want to replace the council tax, according to an online poll run by the cross-party Commission on Local Tax Reform set up by the Scottish Government and the Convention of Scottish...
A House of Lords committee has called for the Scotland Bill, the UK government’s flagship measure to extend Scottish devolution, to be shelved until the financial arrangements underpinning it...
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon today promised to block the Scotland Bill at Holyrood, unless the UK Treasury agrees a “satisfactory and fair” settlement to underpin the Bill in its...
New tax powers plus continuing pressures on the public finances mean Scotland needs a root-and-branch review of government’s relationship with its citizens, CIPFA has told a tax commission set...
The Barnett formula is increasingly regarded as no longer fit for purpose. A recent report from the Northern Ireland Assembly helps make the case for a needs-based approach.
Scottish Finance Minister John Swinney has struck out furiously at the chancellor’s “unexpected and unwarranted” £3bn in further cuts, complaining that Scottish Ministers were...
The Barnett formula needs to be scrapped as part of moves to ensure an equitable and sustainable distribution of public funding across the UK, a CIPFA submission to the Northern Ireland Assembly has...
A pledge by UK party leaders to maintain the Barnett Formula for funding public services in Scotland if there is a no vote in Thursday’s independence referendum will increase demands for English...