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Scottish Government Uses £33Million Farming Cash To Plug A Huge Budget Black Hole

[IMG][/IMG] Scottish Government deputy first minister Shona Robison confessed in a meeting with NFU Scotland that the £33m ring-fenced cash may not even be returned to farmers next year, and that the SNP executive may dip further into agriculture funds to fix a £1bn budget black hole. It was "deferred" from during the government's Emergency Budget Review in 2022 with then-finance secretary John Swinney promising the cash would be returned in future years. [Read Full Article]