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The Scottish Government Economy Directorates ( Scottish Gaelic: Buidheann-stiùiridh Eaconamas) are a group of Directorates of the Scottish Government. They were rebranded as the Economy Directorates in July 2016, having previously been reorganised in December 2010 and then in June 2014. In July 2021, a further re-organisation led to the ...
Taxation in Scotland today involves payments that are required to be made to three different levels of government: to the UK government, to the Scottish Government and to local government. Currently 32.4% of taxation collected in Scotland is in the form of taxes under the control of the Scottish parliament and 67.6% of all taxation collected in Scotland is reserved to the UK Parliament.
He was also the first Scots Makar (the official national poet), appointed by the inaugural Scottish government in 2004. Many major Scottish post-war novelists, such as Muriel Spark, with The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) spent much or most of their lives outside Scotland, but often dealt with Scottish themes.
Scots is recognised as an indigenous language of Scotland by the Scottish government, [8] a regional or minority language of Europe, [9] and a vulnerable language by UNESCO. [10] [11] In the 2011 Scottish Census, over 1.5 million people in Scotland reported being able to speak Scots.
Humza Haroon Yousaf ( / ˈhʌmzə ˈjuːsəf /; [1] born 7 April 1985) is a Scottish politician who served as First Minister of Scotland and Leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) from March 2023 to May 2024. He served under his predecessor Nicola Sturgeon as justice secretary from 2018 to 2021 and then as health secretary from 2021 to 2023.
The Scottish Public Services Ombudsman ( SPSO) is the organisation that handles complaints about public services in Scotland. The Ombudsman service is independent of government and with a duty to act impartially. The SPSO is responsible for looking at complaints made by individual members of the Scottish public about most organisations ...
One government has collapsed, with, according to BBC reports, another to go today. That constitutes "government crisis" in my head. Not exactly strong and stable. Tim O'Doherty ( talk) 08:16, 29 April 2024 (UTC) [ reply] Yet it is not being described that way in the media or this article. All the coverage concentrates on Yousaf's future and not ...
