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Finance and Public Administration Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 12 November 2024
Michael Marra
You have taken it out and put it back in.
Finance and Public Administration Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 12 November 2024
Michael Marra
It did just arrive. In terms of the overall—
Finance and Public Administration Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 12 November 2024
Michael Marra
You are explicit in the submission to the committee today that the Scottish Government is using that money as a second reserve to meet in-year spending pressures. Where would we be if we did not have it?
Finance and Public Administration Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 12 November 2024
Michael Marra
Can you provide to the committee, in written evidence, some basis for the range of assumptions that you were operating under at the point at which you made the cuts in September?
According to the autumn budget revision documents, £116.5 million of the cuts from September have been realised. Is that correct?
Finance and Public Administration Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 12 November 2024
Michael Marra
And the ScotWind money on top of it. How much is that?
Finance and Public Administration Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 12 November 2024
Michael Marra
Will you provide it in writing to the committee?
Finance and Public Administration Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 12 November 2024
Michael Marra
On that date in September when the cabinet secretary decided to make £1 billion of adjustments in the spending, at what number was your assumption?
Finance and Public Administration Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 12 November 2024
Michael Marra
I am trying to pin you down a little on that. If it was not on 29 July, when the announcement was made by the chancellor around the spending—
Finance and Public Administration Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 12 November 2024
Michael Marra
We know that now.
Finance and Public Administration Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 12 November 2024
Michael Marra
It is a picture of a chaotic and incompetent approach.