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We will continue to monitor all that, to make sure that we keep on top of any things that emerge. It is positive that average earnings growth is up—and is up compared with the rest of the UK—as is the number of top-rate taxpayers, according to the latest available figures.
Under the proposals that are coming, we will still not have the powers to vary top-rate taxation. In an independent Scotland, we will have the ability to vary not just top-rate taxation but all taxation.
There was the £2,000 that you mentioned, and the possibilities of wardens and car parks are mentioned in the financial memorandum, but they are just possibilities.
She went on to say that there is £70 million of new money for colleges, £62 million resource and £8 million capital, and “on top of that, there is a further £8 million for colleges to deliver employability programmes” through the child poverty funds.
She stated she did not have the capacity to deal with this on top of everything else.Key themes from lived experience engagement with members of Scottish Women's Aid Survivor Reference Group: 26 March
Equalities and Engagement
The Committee held an engagement event in Dundee on 28 August 2024 to discuss young people’s priorities for the budget 2025-26, particularly the incentives that have the most significant impact on their decision to live and work in Scotland. The top three priorities identified were (i) employment opportunities, (ii) access to educ...
This is in response to debate at Stage 1.
Allowing overpayments of ‘top-up’ benefits, such as Scottish Child Payment to be deducted from other Social Security Scotland benefits.
Committee reports
Date published:
16 September 2024
Their budgets form part of the SPCB’s overall budget which is “top-sliced” from the Scottish Consolidated Fund and is scrutinised by this Committee as part of the wider Scottish budget process.