Budget 2020/21: Finance Committee Briefing on Fiscal Framework Headlines Resource spending in the 2020/21 budget is up almost 5% in real terms compared to the 2019/20 budget (excluding new resources for social security and changes to the accounting for farm payments, post-Brexit). The increase is entirely due to increases in the Barnett-determined block grant. The […]
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[embedyt] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSOFoRKF6rE[/embedyt] This week I opened the debate in the Scottish Parliament on the Scottish Budget. Labour brought this debate to the parliament as we want to encourage wider discussion in the Parliament and across the country, and to build a consensus about the kind of public services that we want in Scotland […]
I am concerned that the budget being brought forward for this year by the Finance Secretary disproportionately cuts the budgets of local councils who end up taking a bigger share of the austerity cuts. For me this is of real concern given that councils are already suffering from the fact that the council tax freeze […]