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Scottish budget: record spend promised on tackling climate and poverty
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Scottish ministers have promised record spending on cutting climate emissions and on housing improvements, in a budget that also put heavy emphasis on tackling poverty and low pay.
Kate Forbes, the finance secretary, said the Scottish government would invest £2bn in low-carbon spending and record sums in childhood poverty measures, adult disability, free school meals, and free bus travel for all young people. There was also a record £18bn for the health service and social care.
Forbes said: “Today’s budget is a budget of choices, and we have chosen to tackle child poverty, to invest in the transition and to boost economic prosperity.”
She promised that Scotland’s public sector workers would receive a minimum hourly rate of £10.50, above the
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