Devolution Benefits 'Face the Axe' to Plug Gbp 3.8bn Hole in Public Finances

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FREE personal care for the elderly heads a list of benefits introduced under devolution which should be cut or "fundamentally reviewed" to help plug a GBP 3.8 billion black hole in public finances, a new report has warned.

Scotland's auditor general Robert Black listed a series of benefits - introduced north of the Border in the past decade - as possible casualties of a forecast 7-13 per cent reduction in the Scottish budget by 2013.

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Devolution Benefits 'Face the Axe' to Plug Gbp 3.8bn Hole in Public Finances

He also highlighted concessionary bus passes, the council tax freeze, abolishing prescription charges and free eye tests - all policies that have come to define devolut...

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