Finance Secretary Shona Robison says the Scottish Government’s independence papers are “almost at the end of the process”. Ms ...

A vow to scrap the two-child benefit cap and changes to basic and intermediate tax thresholds are among the plans for the ...

Scots will no longer face year-long waits for NHS treatment, the SNP has claimed, two months after ministers spectacularly ...

SNP finance secretary Shona Robison said the increase – which is £9 million more than the government had promised – would be 'transformational for the sector' ...

A £2 billion increase for the NHS has been welcomed but the SNP has been accused of 'moving the goalposts' on a commitment to reduce NHS ...

The Scottish NHS will receive a record funding settlement of £21bn next financial year, Robison said. She told MSPs this was ...

In the latest blow to John Swinney's embattled leadership, Mr MacNeil has now confirmed he is joining the Alba Party, founded ...

Record Political Editor Paul Hutcheon says the First Minister has backed Scottish Labour into a corner with the Budget.

Campaigners have welcomed money for affordable homes in the Scottish Budget, but say it merely reverses cuts in previous years. Living Rent said the scale of the housing shortage means the £768 ...

Housing campaigners had been staggered by a £196.08m (26%) cut to the budget in the 2024/25 alone, without taking into account inflation, with the spending plans set at £555.862m before Mr Yousaf's ...

Shona Robison admitted the experience some patients were currently facing in Scotland "falls short of what we would expect".