UK Government announce further £1.1B funding to help Scotland tackle COVID

Cllr Alastair Redman

The UK Government has announced a further £1.1 billion in funding to help Scotland tackle COVID-19. This additional funding can be spent in the remaining months of 2020-21 or carried over into 2021-22.

Scotland has now received an additional £9.7 billion since the pandemic began in March 2020. Throughout the pandemic the SNP have been too slow to give businesses the support they need. They must now use this extra funding to protect jobs and support businesses.

Jobs and businesses are never the priority for the SNP. We in the Scottish Conservatives will always put Scottish livelihoods first.

Cllr Alastair Redman - Kintyre and the Islands ward

Eagle secures Parliamentary win over calls to axe the Family Farm Tax

Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs, Land Reform and Fishing, Tim Eagle MSP, secured a rare Parliamentary victory for the Scottish Conservatives over the UK Labour Government's changes to Agricultural Property Relief and Business Relief.In a Scottish Conservative-led debate, the motion tabled