Barnett Formula: Scotland

Part of Treasury – in the House of Commons at on 1 July 2025.

Alert me about debates like this

Photo of Darren Jones Darren Jones The Chief Secretary to the Treasury

One thing I can tell the Scottish people, and indeed the House, is that it is this Labour Government who have given the largest real-terms increase in spending to the Scottish Government since devolution began—billions and billions of pounds of extra money is going to the Scottish National party Government in Holyrood. On devolved matters, it is for the SNP Government to be accountable for the delivery of public services to people in Scotland, where they are failing on everything from the NHS to welfare and the economy.

Barnett Formula

An economic mechanism used by the Treasury to adjust automatically the amounts of public expenditure allocated to Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, to reflect changes in spending levels allocated to public services in England, England and Wales or Great Britain as a whole.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnett_formula