Scottish ministers have been forced to admit that their controversial plans to halve duties for airlines serving Scotland’s airports have hit a Brexit-related snag.
The Scottish Government has imposed what amounts to a total ban on fracking, a decision that puts it at odds both with UK energy policy and the owners of Scotland’s biggest industrial complex.
Scotland’s auditor general has given the Scottish Government a clean bill of health for the accounting and management of its £34bn budget in 2016-17, but warned ministers that they will...
An alliance of aid charities has urged the Scottish Government to respond to developing world climate catastrophes by ramping up its programme for reducing greenhouse emissions.
The first ministers of Wales and Scotland have written to the government urging it to work with them to ensure powers are devolved to them post-Brexit.
Scottish education secretary John Swinney faces mounting pressure – including from within his own party – to intervene over a 17% pay rise for a top college executive at a time when pay...
Scotland’s new fiscal powers will bring about a “massive” culture change to Holyrood’s budget process, a member of the independent expert group charged with drawing up reforms...
The notional deficit in Scotland’s public finances has fallen by £1.3bn over the past year, but still stands at 8.3% of GDP, more than three times the UK level, according to the annual...
Liability for business rates should be extended to private schools, universities and local authority arms-length operations, an independent review of non-domestic local taxation in Scotland has...
Scotland’s public finances are especially vulnerable to damage from the Brexit process, and ministers should be putting contingencies in place now to absorb future economic shocks, CIPFA has...
Scottish ministers are to use their new welfare powers to create a benefit aimed at helping people who face financial difficulties in meeting funeral costs.
The group set up to review Scotland’s budget process has urged radical reform to reflect that increased proportions of money will now be raised in the country.
A second referendum on Scottish independence will be put on hold until after Brexit, Scotland’s first minister and SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon has said.
Theresa May’s £1bn deal with the Democratic Unionist Party has unleashed cross-party uproar in Scotland, after Downing Street made clear that there would be no consequential boost to the...
Lee Hamill, Public Finance newcomer of the year, oversaw a significant redesign of the accounts at Edinburgh University – and drew on his Olympic and Paralympic experience to bring in change
An independent review of the Holyrood parliament has proposed more than 70 reforms, many aimed at strengthening scrutiny, but has shied away from demands for more radical change.
The chair of the supervisory body for Scotland’s national police force has stepped down, after two committees of MSPs declared a lack of confidence in his leadership of the Scottish Police...
