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Maree Todd, Minister for Social Care, Mental Wellbeing and Sport in the main chamber during First Minster's Questions at the Scottish Parliament in Holyrood, Edinburgh, May 11, 2023
Cabinet Office sets out plan for bringing services like cleaning and security back in-house
A SCOTTISH National Party minister has claimed her 23 per cent salary hike is “not a pay rise” while some of the lowest paid public-sector workers in Scotland prepare to strike to reverse pay cuts.
Social care minister Maree Todd, who – along with junior ministerial colleagues — will rake in an extra £19,126 to total £100,575 next year, as cabinet secretaries see their salaries soar to £116,125.
She told BBC Radio Scotland: “It’s not a pay rise, it won’t cost the public purse a penny extra, and I think it’s very important that people understand that.”
Roger McKenzie talks to general secretary of Unison CHRISTINA McANEA about the impact of the cost-of-living crisis on members, the local government funding emergency and the threat of Reform UK
As Scotland’s inept political class hold endless summits on topics ranging from Reform to seagulls, and management culture replaces political leadership, MATT KERR goes for a hike to take his mind off the unfinished, unaddressed and undone