Scottish Budget
Details of the Scottish Government's spending plans.
Equality and rights
Policies
- Access to justice
- Armed forces and veterans community
- Asylum and refugees
- Disabled people
- Employment support
- Faith and belief
- Gender equality
- Getting it right for every child (GIRFEC)
- Gypsy/Travellers
- Human rights
- Human trafficking
- LGBTQI+
- Languages
- Poverty and social justice
- Race equality
- Social security
- Victims and witnesses
- Violence against women and girls (VAWG)
Featured
Improving the Lives of Scotland’s Gypsy/Travellers 2: action plan 2024-2026
Second joint action plan by the Scottish Government and the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA).
Programme for Government 2024-25: Serving Scotland
First Minister John Swinney announced his first Programme for Government on 4 September 2024.
Publications
Disability Equality Plan
20 June 2025
Disability Equality Plan Equality Impact Assessment Executive Summary
20 June 2025
Disability Equality Plan Part 1 Easy Read version
20 June 2025
Consultations
Statistics and research
News
Disability Equality Plan published
£2.5 million investment to drive change across Scotland.
Social Justice Secretary: “Scrap damaging welfare reforms”
Call for UK Government to follow Scottish Government lead on social security.
Pension Age Winter Heating Payments
Proposals to support pensioners in Scotland this winter.
People and directorates
Cabinet Secretary and Ministers
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Jenny Gilruth MSP
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Siobhian Brown MSP
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Kaukab Stewart MSP
Directorates
- Children and Families Directorate
- Early Learning and Childcare Directorate
- Equality, Inclusion and Human Rights Directorate
- Jobs and Wellbeing Economy Directorate
- Justice Directorate
- Learning Directorate
- Local Government and Housing Directorate
- Mental Health Directorate
- Safer Communities Directorate
- Social Security Directorate
- Tackling Child Poverty and Social Justice Directorate