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27 May 21
Scottish councils are at risk of becoming financially unsustainable without long-term funding settlements, the sector’s spending watchdog has warned.
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26 May 21
The Scottish National Party has proposed scrapping business rates, council tax and property transaction duties in favour of a land value tax, to give local government greater control over its...
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21 May 21
Scottish colleges recorded growing deficits in 2019-20 but the full effects of Covid-19 are yet to be felt, according to Audit Scotland.
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7 May 21
Newly elected administrations in Scotland and Wales face issues caused by an increasingly centralised approach taken by Westminster.
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30 Apr 21
Education and health outcomes in devolved nations are often worse than in England despite larger budgets, a think-tank report has claimed.
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27 Apr 21
Members of two Scottish trade unions have voted to reject a pay offer to council 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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8 Apr 21
Trade unions have dismissed a pay offer for Scottish local government workers as “a slap in the face” and are balloting their members on new action.
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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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24 Feb 21
The UK government refused a request from Scottish finance secretary Kate Forbes for £1.7bn of additional funding to support the Holyrood administration’s Budget for 2021-22, it has emerged.
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17 Feb 21
The Scottish Government has will extend the 100% business rates holiday for the whole of the next financial year, following further UK government funding.
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15 Feb 21
Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have been given more than £2bn in additional funding from the UK government to help with Covid-19 spending.
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3 Feb 21
The costs of independence to the Scottish economy are likely to be two to three times greater than the costs of Brexit as a result of increased trade costs, a study warns.
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28 Jan 21
Local authorities in Scotland are set to receive £11.6bn from Holyrood next year, an increase of around 3% – plus £90m to freeze council tax – according to draft budget proposals.
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28 Jan 21
Universities in Scotland are expecting to suffer losses of £132m as a result of Covid-19 restrictions and lost accommodation income, according to new analysis.
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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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11 Dec 20
The Scottish Police Authority was unable to balance its budget for the second year running and remains financially unsustainable, Audit Scotland has warned.
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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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27 Nov 20
City of Edinburgh Council’s use of its general fund reserves is unsustainable and will be unable to cover future economic shocks, Audit Scotland has warned.
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23 Nov 20
The Scottish Government has launched the Scottish National Investment Bank, the first development bank in the UK.
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17 Nov 20
A Scottish council has launched a 50/50 joint venture energy company with a Swedish state-owned energy firm to supply heating to a new town on the edge of Edinburgh.
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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.
27 May 21Scottish councils are at risk of becoming financially unsustainable without long-term funding settlements, the sector’s spending watchdog has warned.
26 May 21The Scottish National Party has proposed scrapping business rates, council tax and property transaction duties in favour of a land value tax, to give local government greater control over its...
21 May 21Scottish colleges recorded growing deficits in 2019-20 but the full effects of Covid-19 are yet to be felt, according to Audit Scotland.
7 May 21Newly elected administrations in Scotland and Wales face issues caused by an increasingly centralised approach taken by Westminster.
30 Apr 21Education and health outcomes in devolved nations are often worse than in England despite larger budgets, a think-tank report has claimed.
26 Apr 21Manifestos 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.
8 Apr 21Trade unions have dismissed a pay offer for Scottish local government workers as “a slap in the face” and are balloting their members on new action.
15 Feb 21Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have been given more than £2bn in additional funding from the UK government to help with Covid-19 spending.
3 Feb 21The costs of independence to the Scottish economy are likely to be two to three times greater than the costs of Brexit as a result of increased trade costs, a study warns.
28 Jan 21Universities in Scotland are expecting to suffer losses of £132m as a result of Covid-19 restrictions and lost accommodation income, according to new analysis.
18 Jan 21The UK Shared Prosperity Fund will be allocated by central government ministers, bypassing devolved administrations, according to Treasury chief secretary Steve Barclay.
11 Dec 20The Scottish Police Authority was unable to balance its budget for the second year running and remains financially unsustainable, Audit Scotland has warned.
27 Nov 20City of Edinburgh Council’s use of its general fund reserves is unsustainable and will be unable to cover future economic shocks, Audit Scotland has warned.
23 Nov 20The Scottish Government has launched the Scottish National Investment Bank, the first development bank in the UK.
17 Nov 20A Scottish council has launched a 50/50 joint venture energy company with a Swedish state-owned energy firm to supply heating to a new town on the edge of Edinburgh.
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