Independence: what you need to know

Overview

A series of papers called ‘Building a New Scotland’ is being published to give people information about Scotland’s future.

You may have questions about what independence could mean for you.

This page will signpost you to key information in the papers as they are published. Updates will be made to the site as new information becomes available.

For more information on this government’s policies for an independent Scotland and what they could mean for you select a topic below:

• business and fair work
• citizenship and migration
• constitution and democracy
• culture
• currency and managing the economy
• defence
• education and wellbeing
• energy and climate change
• European Union
• international relations
• marine
• social security