More money to Scottish parliament, plus UK parliament is going to be funding supercomputer for Edinburgh uni and carbon capture project in Aberdeen. All sounds fairly positive
Always good when our pocket money goes up.
can’t wait for the nats to explain how this is a disaster for Scotland lmao
0.8% real terms annual increase or £8 more for every £1000 we currently spend.
Nice, better than the usual cut!
Hard to find much to complain about other than the usual rhetoric that every new payment or fund is the ” largest ever” thanks to inflation with the exception of explict cuts/ reductions.
Fraser of Allander Institute says its smoke and mirrors because it’s actually £0.7billion less funding by 2029 than already forecast.
I say we all just split this one. That’s like £500 a head
£400 million for wales £2.9 billion for Scotland
This headline is v far from what the UK Treasury has actually said, which is that the average annual increase of the block grant will be 2.9bn – which is essentially a real-terms cut due to inflation.
Happy to be corrected on this – but v sceptical of the UK Govt figures
Has anyone stopped to ask where this money is coming from?
The chancellor has had to roll back cuts to winter fuel payments which was a cut she originally said had to be done to close a black hole in the budget, what is being cut instead?
In April 2025 the chancellor had to borrow over £20 billion to keep the country running, it’s the fourth highest April borrowing since records began.
Borrowing for the last financial year was over £148 billion, £11 billion more than forecast and £28 billion more than last year.
It’s estimated 250,000 jobs have gone since her Autumn budget and the increase in National Insurance.
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More money to Scottish parliament, plus UK parliament is going to be funding supercomputer for Edinburgh uni and carbon capture project in Aberdeen. All sounds fairly positive
Always good when our pocket money goes up.
can’t wait for the nats to explain how this is a disaster for Scotland lmao
0.8% real terms annual increase or £8 more for every £1000 we currently spend.
Nice, better than the usual cut!
Hard to find much to complain about other than the usual rhetoric that every new payment or fund is the ” largest ever” thanks to inflation with the exception of explict cuts/ reductions.
Fraser of Allander Institute says its smoke and mirrors because it’s actually £0.7billion less funding by 2029 than already forecast.
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I say we all just split this one. That’s like £500 a head
£400 million for wales £2.9 billion for Scotland
This headline is v far from what the UK Treasury has actually said, which is that the average annual increase of the block grant will be 2.9bn – which is essentially a real-terms cut due to inflation.
Happy to be corrected on this – but v sceptical of the UK Govt figures
Has anyone stopped to ask where this money is coming from?
The chancellor has had to roll back cuts to winter fuel payments which was a cut she originally said had to be done to close a black hole in the budget, what is being cut instead?
In April 2025 the chancellor had to borrow over £20 billion to keep the country running, it’s the fourth highest April borrowing since records began.
Borrowing for the last financial year was over £148 billion, £11 billion more than forecast and £28 billion more than last year.
It’s estimated 250,000 jobs have gone since her Autumn budget and the increase in National Insurance.
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