£1.7 billion budget erosion due to inflation: FOI release

Information requested

How the Scottish Government has calculated the claim that the Scottish Government’s budget this financial year has ‘been eroded by £1.7 billion due to inflation’ as said by the First Minister to the Scottish Parliament on 3 November 2022. Please include the calculations and the sourcing for those calculations or any figures used for the basis of them.

Response

I enclose a copy of all of the information you requested in an excel spreadsheet.

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Attachments

• 202200330376_inflationary impact Excel document 30.5 kB

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