Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced the creation of a commission to examine possible replacements for the council tax as she set out her first programme for government in the post.
A quirk in the Barnett Formula for determining the public spending share of the UK’s constituent nations has spared Scotland £600m of cuts since the UK coalition’s austerity programme began in 2010,...
New tax powers for the Scottish Parliament could improve efficiency and accountability, provided they abide by a suite of key principles, CIPFA has told Lord Smith of Kelvin’s Commission on...
Former UK Cabinet minister Jim Murphy has thrown his hat into the ring for the Scottish Labour leadership post left vacant by last week’s sudden resignation of Johann Lamont.
Scottish Labour is looking increasingly likely to elect a Westminster-based politician as its seventh leader since devolution, after an extraordinary weekend of backbiting and bitterness that has...
Nicola Sturgeon is set to become Scotland’s first female First Minister after the deadline for nominations to succeed Alex Salmond as leader of the Scottish National Party passed without any other...
Scottish Finance Secretary John Swinney has announced the first Scottish taxes in more than 300 years in his 2015/16 Budget package in the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood.
The Convention of Scottish Local Authorities has defended moves by some councils to exploit the unprecedented rush of voter registrations ahead of the independence referendum to track down people who...
William Hague has said the Conservatives are ‘wholeheartedly committed’ to increasing the autonomy of Scotland and Wales, but indicated this must be matched with reforms to ensure that only English...
The Welsh National Assembly’s Finance Committee has turned to Scotland, and to CIPFA, for specialist counsel in scrutinising the Welsh Government’s 2015/16 Budget
The promise by pro-union parties to devolve new tax powers to Holyrood were mired in confusion and doubt over the weekend, prompting First Minister Alex Salmond to claim that Scottish voters were...
Alex Salmond has announced that he will be standing down as First Minister of Scotland and leader of the Scottish National Party after voters in Scotland rejected independence.
Prime Minister David Cameron today set Britain on a headlong programme of constitutional reform, after the people of Scotland voted by a 55-45% margin in yesterday’s referendum to reject the option...
Electoral registration staff in Scotland have been inundated with tens of thousands of last-minute registrations to vote in Scotland’s independence referendum on September 18, as polling suggested a...
Promises by the three pro-union parties to guarantee Holyrood more tax powers if Scots vote no to independence have been cast into serious doubt by objections from London mayor Boris Johnson, a...
First Minister Alex Salmond has today set out more details on the Scottish National Party’s promise of a major expansion in childcare provision in an independent Scotland, but admitted that the...
Official figures have shown health authorities in Scotland are failing to meet key performance targets, which come as the Yes campaign for Scottish independence has moved healthcare provision to the...
A £1bn City Deal for Glasgow has been agreed by council leaders and both Scottish and UK government ministers, the first such pact to be reached outside England.
Devolved administrations in the nations and regions of the UK are increasingly getting the blame when public services go wrong, but Whitehall still carries the can where division of power is murky, a...
Voters in England want public spending in Scotland to be cut to the level of the UK average if there is a no vote in next month’s independence referendum, a poll has found.
Loans for a project to power some 20,000 Scottish homes and a whisky distillery through biomass energy will be guaranteed by the government, it has been confirmed.
First Minister Alex Salmond has promised Scottish voters that a publicly owned National Health Service, free at the point of delivery and prioritised according to clinical need, would be entrenched...
