The Institute for Fiscal Studies estimates that between 2011-12 and 2013-14, total UK departmental expenditure will fall by 2.3 per cent a year in real terms, which would mean that, in 2013-14, public spending in Scotland would in real terms be between £2 billion and £3 billion lower than spending in this year.The Government is addressing those challenges by producing a balanced budget for 2010-11—which will gain parliamentary approval in February 2010—and by identifying how we can adapt to living...