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Scottish Government’s Financial Strategy to be published
24 June 2025 • Sarah Medcraf
Scotland’s Finance Secretary Shona Robison will present a five-year financial strategy this week after the UK Government announced Scotland’s budget in last week’s Spending Review.
The plan will focus on protecting key services like the NHS while ensuring financial sustainability.
A supporting Fiscal Sustainability Delivery Plan will also be released on 25 June.
The Finance Secretary said: “This government has delivered a balanced budget every year while taking steps to improve the overall sustainability of our finances. This is despite a deeply challenging financial situation caused by rising global instability, persistent higher inflation and over a decade of UK austerity.
“Our disappointing settlement at the recent UK Spending Review has made the situation worse, short-changing the Scottish Government by £1.1 billion in our day-to-day funding compared with UK Government departments. This comes on top of reductions in our funding worth hundreds of millions of pounds as a result of the UK Government’s proposed welfare reforms and failure to fully fund its employer National Insurance increase.
“In this context, it is important that we take action to maximise funding targeted at frontline services such as our NHS.”
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