Recommendation 29

A key theme of the Committee’s budget scrutiny this parliamentary session has been to urge the Scottish Government to recognise and respond to the significant fiscal sustainability challenges that lie ahead in the long-term, including demographic trends. As part of this work, we have repeated our calls for the Scottish Government to respond in full to the SFC’s two fiscal sustainability reports published in 2023 and then in 2025. It is deeply disappointing and disrespectful that on both occasions no response has been forthcoming.