MEMBERS of the Scottish Greens are demanding a reversal to council cuts as the party considers whether it wants to stay in government.
A Green councillor in Glasgow has said the party must “put a stop to the calamitous council cuts”, with an Audit Scotland report in 2023 warning of looming budget reductions in the years ahead.
The influential Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank has said that the Scottish Government’s resource funding fell by 6% between 2010–11 and 2017–18, driven by cuts to block grant funding from the UK Government.
“It would be a betrayal of our democratic eco-socialist values to remain complicit in passing down funding cuts to local authorities, communities and working people when the STUC and the widerBut Greens MSP Ross Greer said the party had secured a number of key wins in government – including changes to income tax he said had brought in more than £1.5 billion to the public purse.
“As our opponents often confirm, that is the Scottish Greens punching well above our weight in government.”Greer added: “That is why we secured agreement earlier this year for the Scottish Government to explore with councils what a power of general competence would look like – a technical sounding but sweeping and transformational change to their financial powers.
"That’s why the Scottish Government has made available over £14 billion to local councils this year – a real-terms increase of 2.5% compared with the previous year.
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