Lisa Nandy has slammed the government's levelling up strategy, likening it to a feudal system in which the north has to go 'cap in hand to a group of masters' in Westminster 'who determine what happens in our own lives and our community'.
03.02.2022 - 14:37 / dailyrecord.co.uk
More than £200 million of funding is expected to come to the Scottish Government from the UK Treasury to offset the huge rise in energy bills.
Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak is due to come before the Commons with an emergency package of funding to offset the 54 per cent rise in the price cap coming in April.
Sunak is to offer council tax payers in England a rebate funded by government grants.
But as the Chancellor has no oversight of local government funding in Scotland a lump sum, based on the Barnett Formula, will be added to the Scottish government block grant.
It will then be left to the SNP government in Edinburgh to decide how to use the funding.
The price cap rise announced by Ofgem, the energy regulator, will mean that a typical household bill will rise from £1,277 to £1,971 a year, or just under £700, across the UK
Other measures expected to be announced by the chancellor include a huge package of billions of pounds of state-backed loans to energy companies which will then pass the money onto households in the form of £200 discounts on their energy bills.
Despite the measures most people will see a huge rise in their energy bills in April with a further rise expected in October.
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