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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
Robison, Shona SNP Dundee City East Watch on SPTV

I welcome Alexander Burnett’s acknowledgement in his supplementary question that there was record funding for local government and for Aberdeenshire Council. If memory serves me correctly, the independent Accounts Commission has confirmed that there has been a real-terms increase in funding over the past three years.

It is up to each council to decide which infrastructure priorities to take forward. We help with the capital allocations to local government, which also has the ability to borrow to progress infrastructure investment projects. The funding formula that Alexander Burnett referred to is agreed by the 32 local authorities through the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities. It is not for the Scottish ministers to change the funding formula, so I suggest that he takes up that issue with COSLA.

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The Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government (Shona Robison) SNP
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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....