Chamber
Meeting of the Parliament 23 March 2016
23 Mar 2016 · S4 · Meeting of the Parliament
Item of business
First Minister’s Question Time
Cabinet (Meetings)
In the course of that question, Willie Rennie displayed breathtaking ignorance of how the fiscal framework—negotiated between the Scottish Government and the United Kingdom Government—works. I suggest that he might want to read the framework before he goes any further.
The truth of the matter is that, over the life of the next Parliament, our proposals for income tax and local taxation will raise an additional £2 billion to invest in our public services—our health service and our education system. Of course, that extra revenue will also enable us to mitigate Tory austerity—austerity that first started while Willie Rennie’s party was propping up a Tory Government.
In the same item of business
3. Willie Rennie (Mid Scotland and Fife) (LD)
LD
To ask the First Minister what issues will be discussed at the next meeting of the Cabinet. (S4F-03322)
The First Minister (Nicola Sturgeon)
SNP
The cabinet will not meet again until after the election, in the new parliamentary term. I will take nothing for granted, but I hope that I will chair that n...
Willie Rennie
LD
The First Minister’s big idea on tax is the status quo—to do literally nothing. Is she not a little bit disappointed that, after waiting for 80 years to get ...
The First Minister
SNP
I remind Willie Rennie of a budget that took place in the previous Westminster Government. I seem to remember that a certain party was part of that Governmen...
Willie Rennie
LD
The First Minister claims that those tax policies will raise perhaps £1 billion. Interruption.
The Presiding Officer
NPA
Order.
Willie Rennie
LD
The Scottish National Party’s official press release yesterday referred to additional revenue of more than £1 billion. However, it also said: “no taxpayer w...
The First Minister
SNP
In the course of that question, Willie Rennie displayed breathtaking ignorance of how the fiscal framework—negotiated between the Scottish Government and the...
The Presiding Officer
NPA
We move on to question 4. I call Kevin Stewart.