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Recommendation 7
7
Deferred
Publish updated Block Grant Transparency documents with each fiscal event impacting Scotland's funding
Recommendation
The UK Government should publish an updated Block Grant Transparency document alongside each fiscal event which will result in changes to Scotland’s funding. (Recommendation, Paragraph 47) Dispute resolution and formalisation
Government response summary AI-generated
The government states it shares the position, but then pivots to discussing VAT assignment, the Building Safety Levy, and Aggregates Levy, failing to address the specific recommendation to publish an updated Block Grant Transparency document alongside each fiscal event.
Summary of the government's response below — read the verbatim text to verify.
Government Response
Deferred
HM Government · verbatim extract
Deferred
The Block Grant Transparency breaks down all changes in the devolved governments’ block grant funding from the 2015 Spending Review. As set out in the accompanying Explanatory Note of the last publication, the breakdown has generally been updated and published on an annual basis. It would not be appropriate to publish the breakdown alongside a fiscal event. The process for publishing the breakdown includes a review by each of the devolved governments, which can only happen once the devolved governments receive their block grant totals at a fiscal event. An annual publication therefore remains the most appropriate response. HM Treasury sets out the impact on Scotland of policy changes at fiscal events in the publicly available fiscal event documents.
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