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SNP ministers are “gutting local communities,” Scottish Labour said today as it revealed cuts to council funding have led to libraries missing out on more than £250 million in the last decade.
The party cited figures from the Improvement Service’s local government benchmarking framework, which showed that by 2020-21, real-terms cumulative cuts to the net expenditure on libraries had hit £257,125,000.
This equates to a 36 per cent reduction in annual spending since 2010-11.
Years of underfunding are eroding Scotland’s local services and deepening inequality in communities, says VINCE MILLS
It is time to stop tolerating the governing elites incompetence which makes our lives a daily misery, argues MATT KERR
Ahead of next year’s parliamentary elections, ROZ FOYER warns that a bold tax policy is needed to rebuild devastated public services which can serve as the foundation of a strong, fair economy