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Row over Scottish allocation in spending Print E-mail
Wednesday, 10 October 2007

Scotland has been “short-changed” by Westminster in the Comprehensive Spending Review according to First Minister Alex Salmond.

Salmond claimed that Scotland would only see a 0.5 per cent increase in funding after inflation next year. The SNP manifesto had been based on Scotland receiving £1.8bn in new money over the next three years, a figure that Salmond now says has fallen to £1.1bn after yesterday’s Review.

Salmond said:

“That is dramatically different from anything that could possibly have been forseen in recent weeks or months in light of assurances given to us about smoothing over the effect of the rebasing.”

Labour’s Iain Gray, shadow Finance Secretary, said that instead of the £1.8bn the SNP hoped to get in their manifesto, Labour at Westminster had actually provided £7.2bn.

Read Holyrood Today's report on the Comprehensive Spending Review and reaction and also details of the Chancellor's pre-Budget report

 

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