Ministers warned over budgets

Sep 30 2009

Holyrood ministers can expect to have "much more stringent budgets" in the next few years, an expert has warned.

David Bell, professor of economics at Stirling University, has warned that the next financial year could be a "turning point" in Scotland.

He forecast the country would change from having "a benign public spending environment to one which will be as tough as any experienced during the 1970s or 1980s".