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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Craig Paton

Use cash freed up by end of two-child cap to cut income tax, Swinney urged

Scottish Conservative leader Russell Findlay has urged the First Minister to use the funding boost from the UK Government’s scrapping of the two-child cap to cut taxes.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced the policy would be scrapped from April next year when she announced her Budget on Wednesday, freeing up £155 million in Scottish Government cash already allocated to mitigate the cap ahead of setting its own budget in January.

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