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The Scottish Government budget is an annual Act of the Scottish Parliament, giving statutory authority to the Scottish Government for its revenue and expenditure plans. For the financial year 2024/25 the budget was approximately £59.7 billion. [1] The Scottish Government Budget Bill is presented to Parliament by the Cabinet Secretary for Finance.
On 4 December 2024, Swinney's Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government Shona Robison delivered the Scottish budget for 2025 to the Scottish Parliament. In the budget, Robison pledged that the Scottish Government would end the two child benefit cap in 2026.
An Act of the Scottish Parliament to make provision, for financial year 2024/25, for the use of resources by the Scottish Administration and certain bodies whose expenditure is payable out of the Scottish Consolidated Fund, for the maximum amounts of borrowing by certain statutory bodies and for authorising the payment of sums out of the Fund; to make provision, for financial year 2025/26, for ...
From income tax to winter fuel payments, the Scottish government is due to set out its financial plans.
John Swinney will give a speech in Edinburgh on Monday.
The First Minister said the Scottish Government is ‘living within its means’.
Shona Robison will set out the Government’s tax and spending plans in a speech at Holyrood on Tuesday.
In November 2013, GERS figures from the most recent available report (financial year 2011/2012) were included within Scotland's Future, the Scottish Government's independence white paper. Based on the GERS report it was stated that, compared to the UK, Scotland contributed more tax per head, had stronger public finances and had much higher GDP ...