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The Scottish Government produces a National Performance Framework (NPF) which sets out the government's priorities, objectives and overall vision for the country following election. First introduced in 2007, this framework acts a means to measure the performance of the government in eleven national outcome areas which include health, poverty ...
Cabinet Secretary for Finance and the Economy, Kate Forbes, revealed the Scottish Government's 10 year economic plan called National Strategy for Economic Transformation (NSET) on 1 March 2022. [1] This is the first strategic economic work the Scottish National Party administration had done since the publication of The Sustainable Growth ...
GERS also makes use of the estimates of Scottish Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in current market prices published in the Quarterly National Accounts Scotland (QNAS). All estimates for Scotland made within GERS are conducted by the Scottish Government, the UK government do not estimate for Scotland nor are they involved in agreeing the data to be ...
The Scottish government, which had been due to take over control of the payment in September, said the decision left it £150m short and with no choice but to follow suit in imposing means testing.
Scotland’s Health Secretary has urged Scottish Labour MSPs to back Government calls for public services to be exempt from the national insurance increase. Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced an ...
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.
The Scottish electoral system is designed to make single-party government difficult to achieve. [5] The Scottish National Party (SNP) has been in power in Scotland since 2007. [6] The Scottish Parliament election in 2021 resulted in a hung parliament with the SNP winning 64 seats, one short of an overall majority. [7]
NatureScot programmes and priorities have a strong focus on helping to deliver the Scottish Government's National Outcomes and Targets which comprise the National Performance Framework. [19] NatureScot is also a member of SEARS (Scotland's Environmental and Rural Services).