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The Scotland Bill and the "no detriment" principle
25th January 2016
Following the Scottish independence referendum result, Lord Smith of Kelvin was commissioned to write a report outlining how Scotland and the rest of the UK should move forward. The report stated that neither the UK or Scottish governments should suffer financially from policy decisions made by the other once the new powers come into force, in the so-called "no detriment" principle - this is looking to be extremely difficult to implement.You can read the full report here, and a helpful summary of the key points in terms of taxes and benefits here.
Ruth Tarrant
Ruth has been Subject Lead in Economics at tutor2u for many years after a career of teaching Economics, Business, Politics and Maths in a range of secondary schools. She is a highly experienced A level Economics Examiner, and also teaches undergraduate Economics on a very part-time basis at the University of Oxford. Ruth is passionate about making economics fun, engaging and accessible.
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