Plans to integrate health and social care provision in Scotland face significant risks that must be addressed if the reform is to improve how services are delivered, a report has found.
Implementing the Scottish Rate of Income Tax (SRIT) will cost up to £35m and 2.6 million people will be liable to pay it, the National Audit Office has revealed.
Two-thirds of Scots want to replace the council tax, according to an online poll run by the cross-party Commission on Local Tax Reform set up by the Scottish Government and the Convention of Scottish...
The consequences of greater devolution of powers to the Scottish Parliament was the hot topic at CIPFA Scotland’s Directors of Finance Annual Public Finance Debate
A House of Lords committee has called for the Scotland Bill, the UK government’s flagship measure to extend Scottish devolution, to be shelved until the financial arrangements underpinning it...
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon today promised to block the Scotland Bill at Holyrood, unless the UK Treasury agrees a “satisfactory and fair” settlement to underpin the Bill in its...
Abolishing prison sentences of 12 months or less could deliver significant savings to the public purse as well as improve the quality of justice in Scotland, a leading penal reform campaigner...
The 2015 Scotland Bill, encompassing the Smith Commission plans for enhanced devolution, completes its Commons passage today, intensifying pressure on Scottish ministers to spell out how they will...
Loneliness should rank equally with poverty and poor housing in determining public health priorities, according to a Scottish Parliament report published today, said to be the first of its kind in...
First minister Nicola Sturgeon has offered Scottish Government support for 270 Lanarkshire steelworkers who will lose their jobs in the wake of today’s announcement by the steelmaker Tata that...
Scottish Secretary David Mundell has promised that the new fiscal and welfare powers to be devolved under the 2015 Scotland Bill will be “a game-changer.”
Scotland’s health boards may be diverting money from important clinical priorities in order to avoid marginal shortfalls in Scottish Government performance targets, according to a report...
The Auditor General for Scotland has warned Scottish ministers that they need to develop better financial reporting ahead of the devolution of new fiscal powers.
An analysis by the Scottish Parliament has found the funding provided by the Scottish Government to local authorities for the seven-year council tax freeze has exceeded the amount of revenue that...
The Scottish Government stands ready to block the additional powers devolved to Holyrood under the 2015 Scotland Bill unless UK ministers underpin the reforms with a fair fiscal settlement, deputy...
The Scottish Government has quit the UK-wide Commission on Social Mobility and Child Poverty in protest at plans by UK ministers to exclude the children of in-work households from their definition of...
Scotland lacks good enough data to support either current claims about its trade performance or the new economic powers coming to Holyrood under the Smith Commission reforms, according to a paper...
Scottish Ministers are facing mounting pressure to reverse previous opposition, and allow councils to levy supplementary taxes, such as charges on hotel stays or workplace parking spaces.
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has set out reforms to school testing as part of efforts to improve educational attainment in Scotland’s schools. The moves form part of the SNP...
More than £500m of funding has been committed to the Royal Navy’s submarine base at Faslane, home of the Trident nuclear weapons programme, Chancellor George Osborne announced.
Holyrood’s finance committee has put forward its own thoughts on a fiscal framework for an increasingly devolved Scotland. The report raises important questions for both London and Edinburgh.
Finance ministers from the UK’s three devolved administrations have issued a joint warning that UK government plans will cut spending “too fast and too far” and present a risk to...
