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Budget

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Scottish Parliament approves £33bn budget »

Patrick Harvie, MSP Glasgow

The SNP government’s budget passed through Holyrood with the aid of the Tories and Lib Dems. The need for support of the budget prompted eleventh-hour spending commitments from the Lib Dems and Tories. The Finance Minister, John Swinney told Ho...

Wed 23 Feb 2011 by Marcus de Wilde | Read more »

SNP accuses Westminster of cutting budgets as Scottish oil revenues rise »

The Scottish National Party has lambasted the UK Government for cutting the country’s devolved budget at the same time as North Sea oil revenues look set to rise. The Scottish Executive’s budget for the coming year has been reduced by up t...

Wed 20 Jan 2010 by Chris Berkin | Read more »

Council braces for drastic budget cuts »

Council braces for drastic budget cuts

Vital services are expected to suffer as Edinburgh Council faces budget cuts of £90 million over the next three years. To achieve the £90m savings, a 10 percent reduction in support costs across all services will be required, with 4 percen...

Wed 20 Jan 2010 by Alison Fulford | Read more »

Scottish budget: Downhill fast »

Sam Karasik

The recent passage of the latest Scottish budget—voted down mere days before—by a formidable margin of 123-2, is a political achievement unlikely to be seen anywhere this side of Pyongyang. Bringing together the SNP, Labour, Tories and Libe...

Wed 11 Feb 2009 by Sam Karasik | Read more »

SNP breaks promise on student debt »

Alex Salmond and John Swinney

Students in Scotland have expressed dismay after the SNP shelved plans to scrap student debt. Nationalist finance minister John Swinney announced last Wednesday that the government would not deliver its manifesto promise to eliminate the debt accrued b...

Mon 19 Nov 2007 by , Sarah Clark | Read more »

The Price of Apathy? »

With an election manifesto heaving with pledges and a kitty insufficient to fulfil them, last week’s Scottish budget represented the biggest shunt to the Scottish Nationalist bandwagon during their brief tenure in government. Almost unsurprisingl...

Mon 19 Nov 2007 | Read more »

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