Parliament passes Scottish budget
MSPS spent to win the Scottish Government budget for 2010, presented the ministers, after a last-minute concessions to help the opposition parties.
Finance Secretary John Swinney announced a series of measures on housing, education and development, while cautioning against cuts.
Labor has rejected the plan of 30 billion for the refusal of the SNP, Glasgow Airport Rail Link (Garl) back.
The increase in the budget adopted in support of a Holyrood vote with the Conservatives.
Mr Swinney said the spending plan, front services, such as schools and hospitals should protect and facilitate economic recovery.
He said: 2010-11 marks the beginning of a period of real rationalization of public expenditure and the impact can not be avoided this year and next year.
We must make difficult decisions this year and the government has prepared and, secondly, we must take steps to prepare our public services and to get our public finances for the period very difficult. Performance in response to demands by the opposition, said the financial secretary of the vessel system 2m demolition and limiting public sector pay.
A game in the review of the current budget, the Minister 20m boost to growth in demand for places at universities, 10m to support access to finance companies and 31 m affordable housing to meet.
Ministers said the 300m airport rail link should go to face a tightening of public spending in the coming years – Labor, Glasgow said the cancellation would cost more than 1,300 jobs.
But the cost of labor spokesman Andy Kerr said the higher MSP budgets actually say: The Financial Secretary, we believe, has a budget that is far, far away from that, what is to promote the Scottish economy, create jobs and support hardworking families. Derek Conservatives, said Brownlee still working to clarify how Garl would be payable if the new one.
He asked: Why not tell us how Garl could be restored? Is it because deep know that the answer is that the money is exhausted and the Labor Party did not dare to admit it; Jeremy Purvis, the Liberal Democrats welcomed the measures to address the impact of the recession and added: The budget bill has been improved as a result of the debate, which is welcome.
But there are significant problems remain – not least for the top 1% paid for the entire public sector in Scotland.