Scottish budget: record spend promised on pay, climate and poverty

Finance secretary Kate Forbes says Scotland will commit to low carbon and invest in free school meals

Scottish ministers have promised record spending on cutting climate emissions and housing improvements, in a budget that put heavy emphasis on tackling poverty and low pay.

Kate Forbes, the finance secretary, said the Scottish government would invest £2bn in low-carbon spending and record sums on childhood poverty, adult disability, free school meals and bus travel for all young people early next year in its budget.

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