Finance Minister John Swinney has won parliamentary approval for Scotland’s £35bn spending plans after making eleventh-hour concessions to opposition parties
A leading civil servant has warned that public spending cuts could reach 20% over the next seven years and that compulsory public sector redundancies cannot be ruled out
Scotland’s public spending watchdog is to be exempted from a list of bodies that could be abolished by ministers under sweeping powers to reform the public sector.
Senior civil servants in the Scottish Government will have their pay frozen as part of plans to cut spending, Finance Secretary John Swinney has announced
An influential committee of MSPs has called on the Scottish Government to provide clearer and more detailed budget information on its commitment to protecting frontline services and supporting...
Replacing the Barnett Formula with a needs-based system would be ‘relatively straightforward’, according to the Independent Commission on Funding and Finance for Wales
The NHS in Scotland has improved its financial performance and met most of its national targets for patient and service improvement, a wide-ranging analysis by Audit Scotland has found
Scotland’s finance secretary has decided to retain the existing funding system for Scottish councils after rejecting claims that it is anomalous and unfair
First Minister Alex Salmond has vowed to press ahead with his controversial referendum Bill on independence for Scotland after rejecting opposition parties’ claims that it is a ‘multimillion-pound...
Urgent action is needed across the public sector to lessen the longer-term impact of spending cuts on jobs and services, the auditor general for Scotland has warned
Scotland’s Finance Secretary, John Swinney, has told councils and the public sector that if progress on shared services doesn’t improve he might be forced to take action
Scotland’s public sector watchdog has told the organisers of the 2014 Commonwealth Games, to be staged in Glasgow, that they must ensure costs are kept under control and risks are managed
