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Meeting of the Parliament 24 September 2025 [Draft]

24 Sep 2025 · S6 · Meeting of the Parliament
Item of business
Portfolio Question Time
Budget 2025-26 (Aberdeenshire Council)
Finance and Local Government
Burnett, Alexander Con Aberdeenshire West Watch on SPTV

It is clear from conversations with constituents that local services are their biggest priority. Those services are overstretched and underfunded by the Scottish National Party Government, with potholes that will not be fixed, grit bins being removed and bridges closed, breaking communities in two. Park bridge closed in 2019 and Aboyne bridge closed in 2023. Those are just two examples of more than 50 bridges that are at risk in Aberdeenshire.

Record funding aside, Aberdeenshire Council remains one of the lowest-funded local authorities in the country, because it receives around 10 per cent less funding per head than the Scottish average, despite being the third-largest geographic area. Will the cabinet secretary commit to ensuring that Aberdeenshire Council receives the funding that it needs to maintain its critical infrastructure?

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The Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government (Shona Robison) SNP
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Alexander Burnett Con
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Shona Robison SNP
I welcome Alexander Burnett’s acknowledgement in his supplementary question that there was record funding for local government and for Aberdeenshire Council....