Scottish budget

[1] The Scottish Government Budget Bill is presented to Parliament by the Cabinet Secretary for Finance.

The current Cabinet Secretary for Finance is Shona Robison who was appointed to the role in March 2023.

The Scottish Government allocates funding for areas which include schools, hospitals, policing, certain social security benefits, the economy, climate change and the environment, amongst others, from the Scottish budget.

[2] An agreement between the Scottish and UK Government, known as the Fiscal Framework, details arrangements on how Scotland is required to manage its funding which includes limits on borrowing powers as well as arrangements for a reserve fund to allow the transfer of funding between financial years.

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