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South Ayrshire Council (Accounts Commission Report) To ask the Scottish Government what action it will take as a result of the statutory follow-up to the Accounts Commission report on South Ayrshire Council of February 2014.
First, the reforms will increase local authority accountability so that the police will be accountable in Orkney, not in Inverness, and in the Borders, not at Fettes Avenue.
The vast majority—about £2.7 billion—is traditional capital funding, NPD accounts for £20 million, RAB accounts for £82 million, receipts account for about £60 million, and resource to capital accounts for just over £200 million.
Let me put that into context and look at what that would mean for the people of Scotland. We know that the 2013 revenue accounts for Scotland showed a black hole in the country’s finances of £4 billion—and that was before the dramatic slump in oil prices was taken into account.
Our higher tax receipts mean that Scotland’s spending on social protection benefits, including pensions, is more affordable and accounts for a smaller share of tax revenues and gross domestic product than such spending accounts for in the UK.