So basically there are many ways to interpret the funding and people are going to pick which ever ways suits their own narrative.
The UK debt payments is 80 billion a year, that’s more than the block grant, more than defence more than a lot of things something has to give, the snp want to borrow more how is that workable the answer is it’s not.
Yeah but also no. But mainly no.
Anyway, well done for not calling the SNP terrorists because the First Minister from Rutherglen is brown today.
I think that’s prograss. So very special well done.
This is the problem with statistics how they are interpreted is more important than the unlying figures
>The fiscal framework describes how funding for the Scottish Budget should be adjusted following devolution of taxes and social security. These funding changes are called Block Grant Adjustments (BGAs).
>**Tax BGAs remove funding from the Scottish Budget because the Scottish Government is now raising its own tax revenue.** Social security BGAs add funding because the Scottish Government has become responsible for some social security payments.
>BGAs are originally based on revenues or spending in Scotland the year before devolution of the relevant tax or payment. They are then updated each year in line with changes in equivalent UK Government devolved revenue or social security spending per head. The adjustments reflect the hypothetical amount that would have been raised or spent in Scotland if the taxes and payments had not been devolved.
This all a consequence of the unwillingness of any politician to change outdated formulae, in this case the 1978 Barnett formula, which isn’t even back of fag packet more back of postage stamp! (another in council tax valuations /bands from 1990) [Just over half (52%) of Scotland’s population (<45) has now lived under Barnett (46)](https://www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk/2022-results/scotland-s-census-2022-rounded-population-estimates/), **a one year quick fix**
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Tldr: No.
So basically there are many ways to interpret the funding and people are going to pick which ever ways suits their own narrative.
The UK debt payments is 80 billion a year, that’s more than the block grant, more than defence more than a lot of things something has to give, the snp want to borrow more how is that workable the answer is it’s not.
Yeah but also no. But mainly no.
Anyway, well done for not calling the SNP terrorists because the First Minister from Rutherglen is brown today.
I think that’s prograss. So very special well done.
This is the problem with statistics how they are interpreted is more important than the unlying figures
I’d also question if the [Block Grant Adjustments](https://www.fiscalcommission.scot/explainers/funding-for-the-scottish-budget/block-grant-adjustments/) are taken into account which would muddy the water even more
>The fiscal framework describes how funding for the Scottish Budget should be adjusted following devolution of taxes and social security. These funding changes are called Block Grant Adjustments (BGAs).
>**Tax BGAs remove funding from the Scottish Budget because the Scottish Government is now raising its own tax revenue.** Social security BGAs add funding because the Scottish Government has become responsible for some social security payments.
>BGAs are originally based on revenues or spending in Scotland the year before devolution of the relevant tax or payment. They are then updated each year in line with changes in equivalent UK Government devolved revenue or social security spending per head. The adjustments reflect the hypothetical amount that would have been raised or spent in Scotland if the taxes and payments had not been devolved.
This all a consequence of the unwillingness of any politician to change outdated formulae, in this case the 1978 Barnett formula, which isn’t even back of fag packet more back of postage stamp! (another in council tax valuations /bands from 1990) [Just over half (52%) of Scotland’s population (<45) has now lived under Barnett (46)](https://www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk/2022-results/scotland-s-census-2022-rounded-population-estimates/), **a one year quick fix**