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Spending is forecast to rise from £6,759 million in 2025-26 to £7,405 million in 2026-27. Social security is projected to take up 13.7% of resource funding in 2026-27, compared with 12.9% in 2025-26.
When the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills set out the latest round of learning estate investment programme funding, she had looked at schools that were in the bottom categories in requiring to be refurbished.
Overview of the 2025/26 budget proposal
Audit Scotland’s budget is drawn from two main sources: fees charged to audited bodies, and funding which is top sliced from the Scottish Consolidated Fund (SCF).
I will again round up the numbers. The latest counts tell us that there were about 3,000 birds on Tiree and Coll, 4,000 birds on Lewis and Harris, and 7,000 to 8,000 birds on Uist.