Scottish Budget: Shona Robison summarises her 2024 budget

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00:00Presiding Officer, let me summarise the measures that this SNP Government sets out today.

00:07Record NHS investment, money to reduce waiting lists and make it easier for people to see

00:11their GP. Tax choices that put money in the pockets of low and middle income earners and

00:16help out hard-pressed local pubs and restaurants. Winter heating payments for older Scots. More

00:23affordable homes. Investment in childcare and nursery education and more jobs and business

00:29growth. More breakfast clubs in our schools. £4.9 billion of positive climate action.

00:36A record increase in funding for local services. Transformational increases in culture spending.

00:45An end to the two-child cap, lifting 15,000 children out of poverty. That is what the

00:50people of Scotland want and will vote for. The question is whether Opposition parties

00:55will, too.

00:58This is a budget that delivers progress for Scotland. It is a budget that delivers hope

01:04for Scotland, and I urge Parliament to support it.