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John Swinney

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George Osborne is told to "stop talking Scotland down" »

The Scottish Finance Secretary, John Swinney, has urged UK Chancellor George Osborne to stop “talking Scotland down” after Mr Osborne claimed the independence debate was causing damage to Scotland’s economy. The Chancellor made the c...

Wed 30 Nov 2011 by Andrew Barr | Read more »

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 »

Scottish Government confirm £84m regeneration of city's waterfront »

Leith Docks

Plans to regenerate the city’s waterfront through a pioneering financial system have been announced by Edinburgh City Council and the Scottish Government. Under the scheme, money generated from the Edinburgh Waterfront project, which will s...

Wed 13 Oct 2010 by Rebecca Low | Read more »

NHS advised to charge for GP appointments »

Waiting Room

Professor David Bell, a senior adviser to the Scottish Parliament, has suggested a £20 patient fee to see a GP, as a way to deal with impending budget cuts.  In a paper published on 9 September, Professor Bell advised that this is the ...

Wed 29 Sep 2010 by Amanda Svensson Falk | Read more »

Murphy slams SNP oil figures  »

Jim Murphy

Scottish Secretary Jim Murphy reignited the debate over the Scottish oil fund this week declaring the SNP's valuation of Scottish oil an “extraordinary exaggeration.”   The fund is being demanded by the SNP who claim that the North S...

Wed 17 Mar 2010 by Rosalind Brown | Read more »

'Cuts commission' formed to find £3 billion spending cuts  »

An independent budget review is to be launched to examine Scotland’s public spending plans over the next 4 years. The move is designed to address the Scottish Government's £3 billion budget deficit.  The group of public and private se...

Wed 17 Feb 2010 by Amy Sutherland | Read more »

SNP lose battle with Westminster over Forth bridge funding »

Forth Road Bridge

The Scottish Government has announced cost-cutting changes to plans for a new road crossing the Forth River to resolve a funding battle between Holyrood and Westminster. Scaled-down links between the southern end of the new bridge and the M9 will save...

Sun 11 Jan 2009 by David Stevenson | Read more »

Green as I say, not as I do »

John Swinney

SNP minister John Swinney has been slated by opposition MSPs for environmental hypocrisy after he used his ministerial car for a journey of 200 metres. As the Scottish Government Minister for Finance and Sustainable Growth, Mr Swinney has overall ...

Fri 15 Feb 2008 by Helen Walker | Read more »

SNP creates more quangos amid criticism »

The Scottish National Party

The SNP has created 24 new quangos since it was elected in May, despite promises by Alex Salmond to cut Scotland's 200 quangos by a quarter at the SNP conference in Aviemore.Quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisations, known colloquially as quangos...

Mon 03 Dec 2007 | 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 »

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