Public Expenditure: Scotland

Scotland Office written question – answered at on 6 July 2017.

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Photo of Deidre Brock Deidre Brock Shadow SNP Spokesperson (Devolved Government Relations), Shadow SNP Spokesperson (Fair Work and Employment), Shadow SNP Spokesperson (Northern Ireland)

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, whether he will seek additional resources for Scotland under the Barnett formula principle as a result of the agreement reached between the Government and the Democratic Unionist Party on confidence and supply.

Photo of David Mundell David Mundell The Secretary of State for Scotland

I refer the hon Member to the answer I gave on 5 July 2017 (UIN 1595).

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Secretary of State

Secretary of State was originally the title given to the two officials who conducted the Royal Correspondence under Elizabeth I. Now it is the title held by some of the more important Government Ministers, for example the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.

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