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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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14 Apr 22
The Scottish Government is looking at introducing a digital sales tax as part of a plan to boost towns.
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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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24 Feb 22
Scotland’s NHS needs major reforms to help the Scottish Government through the recovery from Covid-19, according to a report by a spending watchdog.
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9 Feb 22
Auditors were unable to give an opinion on the accounts of the public body in charge of Scotland’s inland waterways because of flaws in the way it recorded and valued its assets.
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28 Jan 22
Scotland’s local authorities will be given an extra £120m next year compared to previous plans, Kate Forbes has announced.
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20 Jan 22
The UK government’s lack of engagement with devolved administrations over the £2.6bn fund aimed at replacing regional European Union funding has strained relationships across the union,...
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18 Jan 22
The Scottish government must rethink last month's local government settlement or risk disastrous consequences for communities, say COSLA's Alison Evison and Gail Macgregor.
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13 Jan 22
Falkirk Council has so far been unable to make “difficult decisions” it needs to in order to make the savings required for financial sustainability, according to a watchdog’s heavily critical report.
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20 Dec 21
The UK government has doubled the amount of funding provided to devolved administrations to tackle Covid-19 from the £430m pledged last week.
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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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18 Oct 21
Scottish and UK government ministers will commission an independent report looking into changing the way Scotland’s tax revenue affects its funding from Westminster.
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18 Oct 21
Two weeks before it hosts COP26, Glasgow City Council last week approved a £10bn plan to retrofit 1 million homes in the city region to make them more energy efficient. Mark Williams explains how the...
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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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14 Sep 21
Scottish National Party members have supported a motion calling for local authorities to be allowed a more permissive environment to raise revenues to help fund services.
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3 Sep 21
The costs of public services and extra pressures related to Covid-19 have become a strategic risk for Scotland, according to the nation's watchdog.
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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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20 Aug 21
West Lothian Council has agreed to guarantee the financial position of a wholly-owned local leisure operator until the end of April, after Covid-19 impacted on its finances.
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19 Aug 21
Covid-19 support measures and the related economic slowdown saw the Scottish government's budget deficit spike to 22.4% of GDP last year, according to latest statistics.
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18 Aug 21
Shetland Island Council must reduce its reliance on reserves to help manage budgetary pressures in future years, according to the authority's finance chief.
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6 Jul 21
A lack of engagement by Westminster with the Scottish Government on the replacement for European Union structural funding has left the devolved employment minister “beyond disappointed”.
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.
24 Feb 22Scotland’s NHS needs major reforms to help the Scottish Government through the recovery from Covid-19, according to a report by a spending watchdog.
28 Jan 22Scotland’s local authorities will be given an extra £120m next year compared to previous plans, Kate Forbes has announced.
20 Jan 22The UK government’s lack of engagement with devolved administrations over the £2.6bn fund aimed at replacing regional European Union funding has strained relationships across the union,...
18 Jan 22The Scottish government must rethink last month's local government settlement or risk disastrous consequences for communities, say COSLA's Alison Evison and Gail Macgregor.
13 Jan 22Falkirk Council has so far been unable to make “difficult decisions” it needs to in order to make the savings required for financial sustainability, according to a watchdog’s heavily critical report.
20 Dec 21The UK government has doubled the amount of funding provided to devolved administrations to tackle Covid-19 from the £430m pledged last week.
18 Oct 21Two weeks before it hosts COP26, Glasgow City Council last week approved a £10bn plan to retrofit 1 million homes in the city region to make them more energy efficient. Mark Williams explains how the...
14 Sep 21Scottish National Party members have supported a motion calling for local authorities to be allowed a more permissive environment to raise revenues to help fund services.
3 Sep 21The costs of public services and extra pressures related to Covid-19 have become a strategic risk for Scotland, according to the nation's watchdog.
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.
20 Aug 21West Lothian Council has agreed to guarantee the financial position of a wholly-owned local leisure operator until the end of April, after Covid-19 impacted on its finances.
18 Aug 21Shetland Island Council must reduce its reliance on reserves to help manage budgetary pressures in future years, according to the authority's finance chief.
