Phillips, David; Warner, Max - 2024
Health is the largest single area of Scottish Government spending, making up 35% of the Scottish Government's total … discretionary budget in 2024-25 and 39% of its non-benefit budget.2 Its share of spending has grown significantly over time, driven … by large increases in health spending in the 2000s and cutbacks to other areas of spending in the 2010s. This trend is …