Scottish education secretary John Swinney faces mounting pressure – including from within his own party – to intervene over a 17% pay rise for a top college executive at a time when pay...
Scotland’s new fiscal powers will bring about a “massive” culture change to Holyrood’s budget process, a member of the independent expert group charged with drawing up reforms...
The notional deficit in Scotland’s public finances has fallen by £1.3bn over the past year, but still stands at 8.3% of GDP, more than three times the UK level, according to the annual...
Liability for business rates should be extended to private schools, universities and local authority arms-length operations, an independent review of non-domestic local taxation in Scotland has...
Scotland’s public finances are especially vulnerable to damage from the Brexit process, and ministers should be putting contingencies in place now to absorb future economic shocks, CIPFA has...
Scottish ministers are to use their new welfare powers to create a benefit aimed at helping people who face financial difficulties in meeting funeral costs.
The group set up to review Scotland’s budget process has urged radical reform to reflect that increased proportions of money will now be raised in the country.
A second referendum on Scottish independence will be put on hold until after Brexit, Scotland’s first minister and SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon has said.
Theresa May’s £1bn deal with the Democratic Unionist Party has unleashed cross-party uproar in Scotland, after Downing Street made clear that there would be no consequential boost to the...
Lee Hamill, Public Finance newcomer of the year, oversaw a significant redesign of the accounts at Edinburgh University – and drew on his Olympic and Paralympic experience to bring in change
An independent review of the Holyrood parliament has proposed more than 70 reforms, many aimed at strengthening scrutiny, but has shied away from demands for more radical change.
The chair of the supervisory body for Scotland’s national police force has stepped down, after two committees of MSPs declared a lack of confidence in his leadership of the Scottish Police...
Scotland’s local authority spending watchdog has rolled out a new kind of audit, designed to give the public clearer and more systematic assurance about the progress their councils are making...
A £118 billion boost to public spending as a foil to Conservative austerity is the centrepiece of the Scottish National Party’s election manifesto, launched by First Minister Nicola...
Pressure is mounting on the chair of the supervisory body for Scotland’s national police force, after two committees of MSPs declared a lack of confidence in his leadership of the Scottish...
New laws to make public bodies publish information actively rather than just in response to Freedom of Information (FOI) requests may be needed, Scotland’s outgoing information commissioner has...
Inter-party acrimony, fuelled by the general election campaign, has left the formation of new local authority administrations in chaos across much of Scotland.
Facts and figures from the May edition of Public Finance magazine on unemployment trends, Scottish attitudes to independence and the ever-increasing retirement age
