On Fri, 17 May 2013 19:55:31 +0100, Nightjar
wrote:

On 17/05/2013 19:47, mcp wrote:
On 17 May 2013 10:15:46 GMT, Huge wrote:

I imagine what they really want is "devo max", where the English give them
shed-loads of money and they spend it on whatever they like.

Scotland with 8.4% of the population pays 9.9% of the UK's tax. It's
more about Scotland keeping more of it's money than handing it over to
the English to spend it on whatever they like.

Only if you include oil revenue, which HM Treasury has been careful to
ensure will not happen. Scotland also has a higher than average per
capita expenditure, partly due to poor health and partly due to high
unemployment. Without oil, Scotland receives around £16bn more than it
inputs to the UK. Oil revenue would reduce that by around £6bn.

Scotland receives 9.3 per cent of total UK public sector expenditure
acording to GERS, but that includes large amounts of "UK" spending
that disproportionately benefits London & the south east.