In that case, don't call it an assembly, call it what it is - a parliament, with the power to pass primary legislation and ministers to carry it out.
Devolution in Scotland is not the same thing as in Wales, not by a long way.
Only if you're determined to believe it happened in some way other than it should have, or as it manifestly did.
The funding of Scotland is determined by a fixed formula that sets it in direct proportion to money spent in England. Once again, you're crediting UK ministers with having powers they simply do not have.
You're also continuing to show complete ignorance of the political situation in Scotland - and I use 'ignorance' in its correct sense, not as an intended insult. Since getting into government the SNP has consistently played out a strategy of looking for conflict with Westminster, seeking to show how 'London Labour' is bad for Scotland, complaining at every non-devolved decision taken in London that affects Scotland ... in every possible way to claim that the Union doesn't work and Scotland should break away (except that they call it 'independence' rather than separation, because that serves their aim of painting Scotland as being somehow under English control or domination).
If there was the merest whiff of Gordon Brown trying to influence last week's decision about Megrahi, you can be quite sure that Alex Salmond would have been in every TV studio in the whole of the UK making sure we all knew about it. And if the UK Government had found some means of 'punishing' Scotland with reduced funding, it would serve the SNP's long-term aims to take the hit in the wallet and then use that as another means of bashing the Union.