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Originally Posted by jfman
They will, but right now they don't. London produces statistics that it portrays as a Scottish budget. However, it includes expenditure the Scottish Government are committed to abolishing - Trident for one.
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Ah GERS. Not a budget.
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It's still what they spend.
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SCOTS are paying £180 million every year for Trident, the SNP has claimed.
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In fact the annual running costs of Trident will be around £2 billion a year and £200 million for the aircraft carriers. Scotland’s share of this will be less than £200 million, compared to a total budget spend of £71bn.
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Not going to make much of a dent
From my previous link.
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That left a deficit for the year of £13.4bn, compared with £13.5bn the year before.
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