Budget Bill
This Bill will give statutory authority to the Scottish Government to spend money out of the Scottish Consolidated Fund in the financial year 2010-11.
It sets out the purposes for which those resources can be used and the maximum amounts that can be used for each of the Government's spending programmes.
It demonstrates how the Government is using its resources to benefit Scotland and the Scottish people.
The Bill is accompanied by a set of Budget Documents which set out the Government's spending plans in more detail and which are equivalent to Estimates in the UK government system of financial control.
The Bill will be introduced to Parliament in January 2010, to come into force at the beginning of the next financial year.
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