PA MediaScotland’s Finance Secretary Shona Robison is under pressure to embark on wide-ranging reforms as she prepares to set out her draft Budget for next year.
Spending watchdog Audit Scotland warns that the NHS is unsustainable in its present state, local authorities want more cash and autonomy, and unions say education is threatened by a lack of teachers.
There are also calls for the SNP to replace the council tax with a new system and to restrict access to “freebies” such as state-funded university tuition.
Robison said the Budget would focus on eradicating child poverty and “tackling the climate emergency” while improving public services and growing the economy.
Her tax-and-spending bill will be scrutinised in the Scottish Parliament over the winter before a vote in February, when she will need support from outside the ranks of…
