>David Phillips, IFS associate director and head of devolved and local government finance, said: “Under both the Labour and Conservative parties’ plans, the Scottish Government would see cuts in funding for investment and only modest increases in funding for day-to-day spending.
>”It would be up to the Scottish Government how to allocate these budgets between services.
>”With the same sorts of pressures on the NHS as in England, it would likely need to make cuts to at least some ‘unprotected’ services.
>”These cuts would be somewhat bigger under the Conservatives’ proposals than under Labour’s.”
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>David Phillips, IFS associate director and head of devolved and local government finance, said: “Under both the Labour and Conservative parties’ plans, the Scottish Government would see cuts in funding for investment and only modest increases in funding for day-to-day spending.
>”It would be up to the Scottish Government how to allocate these budgets between services.
>”With the same sorts of pressures on the NHS as in England, it would likely need to make cuts to at least some ‘unprotected’ services.
>”These cuts would be somewhat bigger under the Conservatives’ proposals than under Labour’s.”
Report: https://ifs.org.uk/publications/how-would-parties-tax-and-spending-plans-affect-scotland-and-wales
Obviously a Labour government is better than a Tory one, but still a pretty disappointing prospect for there to be cuts.
Couldn’t we just bump up the income tax to make up the difference? To be clear I mean the tax that other people have to pay, not the bracket I’m in.