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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Ben Quinn, Steven Morris and Rory Carroll

Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales react coolly to Hunt’s autumn statement

Nicola Sturgeon in Holyrood
Nicola Sturgeon during FMQs on Thursday responding to the UK government’s autumn budget. Photograph: Jane Barlow/PA

The Scottish National party has accused the chancellor of reintroducing austerity after he announced that Scotland would get a £1.5bn uplift in funding over the next two years in the autumn statement.

Jeremy Hunt told parliament that the NHS and schools in Scotland facing “equivalent pressures” to those in England would benefit from the funding under the Barnett formula, which is used by the Treasury to allocate expenditure to devolved administrations.

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