We demonstrate that both the Barnett formula used to calculate changes in public spending by the Scottish Parliament …

What some view as overly-generous funding of the Scottish parliament results from Scotland.s credible threat to secede … government finances must be consistent with Scotland.s credible threat. Fiscal autonomy -- in which the Scottish parliament …

UK, Scottish and rest of the UK economies if the Scottish Parliament were to exercise its income tax-varying powers under … the Scotland Act. The paper concludes that because Scotland is a small, open economy, the Scottish Parliament would be …

effective planning system. The Scottish Parliament is therefore yet to justify itself to planners. …

'Scottish public finances' in the context of devolution and the establishment of a Scottish Parliament with tax varying powers …