So the Scottish government pre-emprively on talks of spending cuts reduced the Scottish budget by 500m does that mean we can actually spend 3.9bn cos that’d buy us at least 3 more ferries
Is this the capital and resource spending together? Or just the resource spending – I imagine both? It will be interesting to see the breakdown. *
As I said elsewhere, this is a great starting point going into Scotlands budget process, and a very good uplift in direct contrast to the last 14 years. The budget is not perfect, nothing is, but I have to say I’m very pleasantly surprised.
I think about £400Mn of this will go towards pay deals replacing the temporary use of the ScotWind revenue, some will likely also go to resolving ongoing pay disputes.
I’d like to see big increases into the NHS, local councils and infrastructure investment- particularly reversing the cut to the affordable homes budget. I think it may also be viable to bring back the peak fares removal.
Will be interesting to see how Scotlands budget process goes now.
>Barnett consequentials are £3.4 billion next year as well, of which £2.8bn is day-to-day spending. The Treasury will also be providing compensation for higher staff costs through the NICs measure for public sector employers – our understanding is that this will be in addition to the £3.4billion announced today.
About £500 each if they divvied it up.
Thank God, Westminster remembered Scotland exists
SNP will be furious. How will they explain their cuts now?
Thats a lot of ferries.
It will be interesting to see if the Scottish Government follows Labour‘s commitment to reintroduce inflation-based tax threshold increases in 2028.
The Scottish ones will have been frozen for nearly a decade at that point.
Crumbs from Longshanks table 😋
Buy something nice 😘
‘extra’ is a weird way to refer to our taxes being spent on us.
From an admittedly selfish point of view, I hope they finally go through with expanding childcare to the same level as across the border. Something they’ve been promising for years now.
A boy can dream, can’t he?
Thx for giving us some of our own money back.
Just another guilty pity fuck for pissing away all our oil money on tarting up London. Watch them fuck us over again via our renewables with GB Energy.
Good news, but I’m sure the SNP will piss it away.
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Is this each or collectively?
I’ll take ma share in buckie.
There’s a thread about the budget [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/Scotland/comments/1gfng7m/budget_2024_key_points_ataglance/), which you contributed to before posting this story.
So the Scottish government pre-emprively on talks of spending cuts reduced the Scottish budget by 500m does that mean we can actually spend 3.9bn cos that’d buy us at least 3 more ferries
Is this the capital and resource spending together? Or just the resource spending – I imagine both? It will be interesting to see the breakdown. *
As I said elsewhere, this is a great starting point going into Scotlands budget process, and a very good uplift in direct contrast to the last 14 years. The budget is not perfect, nothing is, but I have to say I’m very pleasantly surprised.
I think about £400Mn of this will go towards pay deals replacing the temporary use of the ScotWind revenue, some will likely also go to resolving ongoing pay disputes.
I’d like to see big increases into the NHS, local councils and infrastructure investment- particularly reversing the cut to the affordable homes budget. I think it may also be viable to bring back the peak fares removal.
Will be interesting to see how Scotlands budget process goes now.
*Edit – from the [FAI](https://fraserofallander.org/uk-budget-fai-reaction/), £2.8Bn is for day to day resource spending:
>Barnett consequentials are £3.4 billion next year as well, of which £2.8bn is day-to-day spending. The Treasury will also be providing compensation for higher staff costs through the NICs measure for public sector employers – our understanding is that this will be in addition to the £3.4billion announced today.
About £500 each if they divvied it up.
Thank God, Westminster remembered Scotland exists
SNP will be furious. How will they explain their cuts now?
Thats a lot of ferries.
It will be interesting to see if the Scottish Government follows Labour‘s commitment to reintroduce inflation-based tax threshold increases in 2028.
The Scottish ones will have been frozen for nearly a decade at that point.
Crumbs from Longshanks table 😋
Buy something nice 😘
‘extra’ is a weird way to refer to our taxes being spent on us.
From an admittedly selfish point of view, I hope they finally go through with expanding childcare to the same level as across the border. Something they’ve been promising for years now.
A boy can dream, can’t he?
Thx for giving us some of our own money back.
Just another guilty pity fuck for pissing away all our oil money on tarting up London. Watch them fuck us over again via our renewables with GB Energy.
Good news, but I’m sure the SNP will piss it away.
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