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Fiscal Policy and Tax, Scottish Budget, Scottish Economy

Podcast: Medium-Term Financial Strategy June 2025

Yesterday, the Scottish Government published their medium-term financial strategy, kicking off the Scottish Budget process. Hannah Randolph and Mairi Spowage share their reactions.

TIMESTAMPS

(2:08) What does the medium-term financial strategy do?

(8:47) Financial strategy across spending areas

(18:04) Public sector reform

(25:06) Looking ahead to the Scottish spending review

Authors

Hannah is a Fellow at the Fraser of Allander Institute. She specialises in applied social policy analysis with a focus on social security, poverty and inequality, labour supply, and immigration.

Picture of Mairi Spowage, director of the Fraser of Allander Institute

Mairi is the Director of the Fraser of Allander Institute. Previously, she was the Deputy Chief Executive of the Scottish Fiscal Commission and the Head of National Accounts at the Scottish Government and has over a decade of experience working in different areas of statistics and analysis.