Draft Spending and Tax Plans 2018-19

Part of the debate – in the Scottish Parliament at on 14 December 2017.

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Photo of Fulton MacGregor Fulton MacGregor Scottish National Party

I welcome today’s announcement that the Scottish police service and the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service will be keeping all of the funds that they would have been paying in VAT. Will the cabinet secretary confirm that the SNP Government will continue to pursue the UK Government to get it to pay back the £140 million of VAT that it has already taken?