The Scottish Government should be given the resources and powers to dictate how levelling up and post-Brexit development funding is allocated, a senior minister has said.
The impact of inflation and the fallout from the UK government’s “calamitous” mini-budget mean Scottish ministers have had to double budget cuts this year.
Scottish ministers have tabled around £500m of cuts to planned revenue and capital spending due to “enormous strains” on the devolved administration’s 2022-23 budget.
Scottish Government plans to fund a national scheme to improve educational attainment through the council tax will “destroy” the link between local taxation and services, local authorities have...
A conflict is brewing between the Scottish Government and local authorities over ministers’ plan to fund a key plank of its national education policy from increases in local taxation.
John Swinney’s nine-year stewardship of Scotland’s public finances has ended, after first minister Nicola Sturgeon shifted him to the politically sensitive education portfolio in a major...
The collapse in oil prices helped drive up the notional deficit in Scotland’s public finances to almost twice the UK level in 2014/15, according to the annual Government Expenditure...
Scotland is to have a nationwide council tax freeze in 2016/17 for the ninth successive year, after all 32 local authorities accepted finance secretary John Swinney’s £10.3bn funding deal...
Chief secretary to the Treasury Greg Hands is expected to table fresh proposals to break the deadlock over funding arrangements for Scotland’s new devolved tax powers at a meeting in London today...
Finance Secretary John Swinney has set Scotland’s 32 local authorities a deadline of 2 February to decide whether or not to accept a financial settlement he hopes will underpin a further year of the...
Scottish finance secretary John Swinney has shunned his first opportunity to set a different income tax for Scotland from that of the rest of the UK, but made clear his intention to do so if and when...
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...
Holyrood will insist on a fair fiscal framework to reconcile Scotland’s new tax powers with its block grant as part of the implementation of proposals on further devolution, Deputy First Minister...
