What does the UK budget mean for Scotland?

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Some key decisions about tax and spending in Scotland are devolved - but the UK budget still has a big impact.

Not all spending in devolved areas triggers Barnett consequentials. As of this year, some cash is actually going around Holyrood and directly to local projects.

This is partly to do with the government's "levelling up" agenda, an attempt to rebalance an economy previously seen as being skewed towards London and the south-east of England - while helpfully winning over former Labour voters in "red wall" constituencies in the north of England. This may also become a more common occurrence going forward, with the UK Shared Prosperity Fund set to replace EU structural funds in 2022 - again sparkingA range of different taxes are devolved to Holyrood - but others are not, and the interplay between the two means changes announced at Westminster can still have far-reaching implications in Scotland.which the government in Edinburgh argues is fairer.

While there have long been plans to replace air passenger duty with a devolved Air Departure Tax, the move has been tied up in technical wrangles for years - chiefly because of that exemption for Highlands and Islands airports.ditched this plan in 2019

 

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Snp will be refusing the money won't they.

Surely they don't care because they want to leave......

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