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27 May 22
Scotland could have to make spending cuts and increase taxes to help fill a medium-term budget deficit, experts have warned.
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26 May 22
The Scottish government has been told it should provide local authorities with a multi-year financial settlement to enable robust medium-term planning amid long-term funding reductions.
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19 May 22
The Scottish Government has been told it needs to figure out how £760m of annual benefit payments will be balanced alongside other spending.
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17 Mar 22
Measuring the effectiveness of billions of pounds of Covid-19 support paid to Scottish firms is impossible due to the poor quality of data collected by the Scottish government, according to...
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10 Dec 21
Local authorities in Scotland are set to have full autonomy over the council tax rates they can set next year, amid reductions in core funding, the Scottish government has announced.
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4 Oct 21
It is 'now or never' for the Scottish government to implement reforms on how public services are run, according to the country's most senior auditor.
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1 Sep 21
The Scottish government has unveiled proposals for council tax and business rate reforms, including a realignment of rate bands, in a consultation on a new framework for tax policy.
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25 Aug 21
The Scottish government has announced it will provide more than £1bn additional funding over five years to help address health shortages and treatment backlogs created by Covid-19.
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23 Aug 21
The Scottish government has been urged by unions to use national reserves to help fund an improved pay offer for local government workers.
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26 Apr 21
Manifestos from Scotland’s largest parties do not honestly reckon with the devolved government’s likely financial situation in the coming years, according to Institute for Fiscal Studies researchers.
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15 Apr 21
Scottish Government’s income tax rates are progressive, but unnecessarily complicated by taxation bands that are too similar, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
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31 Mar 21
Funding for the Scottish Government’s day-to-day spending in 2021-22 is nearly a third higher per person than in England, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
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26 Jan 21
Funding from the Scottish Government will only meet between 60% and 70% of overall financial pressures identified by councils, according to the country’s local government spending watchdog.
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18 Jan 21
The UK Shared Prosperity Fund will be allocated by central government ministers, bypassing devolved administrations, according to Treasury chief secretary Steve Barclay.
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30 Nov 20
The Scottish Government is to pump an additional £200m of funding into its Affordable Housing Supply Programme next year, to help the construction sector’s recovery from Covid-19.
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28 Oct 20
Scottish GDP fell by 19.4% during the second quarter of this year, according to statistics released by the Scottish Government.
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15 Oct 20
The Scottish Government is set to allocate an additional £52.6m to maintain bus services during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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8 Oct 20
A new package of funding and financing flexibilities for local authorities in Scotland will allow councils to use capital receipts to meet funding pressures.
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27 Aug 20
Scottish debt rose to £15.1bn last year, around £2bn more than last year, according to statistics released by the Scottish Government.
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7 Aug 20
The Scottish government will move forward its review of its fiscal framework forward a year, in a bid to help the country’s recovery from Covid-19.
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22 Jun 20
Scotland must have greater fiscal autonomy to deal with the economic fall-out of the coronavirus pandemic, a group of economic advisors has warned.
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3 Apr 20
The devolution of almost £2bn in disability benefits to Scotland has been put on hold to allow the health and social care sectors to focus on their response to the coronavirus pandemic.
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31 Mar 20
An ambitious plan to expand early learning and childcare in Scotland has been halted to allow councils to focus on tackling the coronavirus pandemic.
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17 Mar 20
Scotland should prepare for “permanent scarring” of its economy as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, a leading think tank has warned.
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12 Mar 20
PF hears finance secretary Kate Forbes’ plans for a uniquely Scottish approach to economic and welfare policy
27 May 22Scotland could have to make spending cuts and increase taxes to help fill a medium-term budget deficit, experts have warned.
26 May 22The Scottish government has been told it should provide local authorities with a multi-year financial settlement to enable robust medium-term planning amid long-term funding reductions.
25 Aug 21The Scottish government has announced it will provide more than £1bn additional funding over five years to help address health shortages and treatment backlogs created by Covid-19.
18 Jan 21The UK Shared Prosperity Fund will be allocated by central government ministers, bypassing devolved administrations, according to Treasury chief secretary Steve Barclay.
15 Oct 20The Scottish Government is set to allocate an additional £52.6m to maintain bus services during the Covid-19 pandemic.
17 Mar 20Scotland should prepare for “permanent scarring” of its economy as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, a leading think tank has warned.
12 Mar 20PF hears finance secretary Kate Forbes’ plans for a uniquely Scottish approach to economic and welfare policy
