The cost of the prison service as a whole has rocketed from £332m in 2015/16 which is an estimated £43,000 per prisoner with the budget for ...

First Minister John Swinney is expected to announce £25m in funding for councils to improve existing play parks. Speaking ...

"How can this be described as a just transition?" John Swinney says the challenges that exist are a consequence of a declining oil basin. "We have to adjust to that," says the FM. Shona Robison ...

Now, John Swinney has a choice. He can continue down the same path of silence and inaction, or he can show the leadership that his predecessors failed to. That means handing over government time ...

Dozens of organisations have penned a letter to First Minister John Swinney calling on him to bring forward promised legislation to phase out gas boilers in homes over fears delays will have ...

JOHN Swinney was last night accused of a “cruel” failure over an SNP promise to renew every playpark in Scotland as he rehashed an old funding pledge. The First Minister hailed £25million ...

John Swinney has promised SNP members at a private meeting the party will never again be embroiled in a financial scandal on his watch. In a recording leaked to the Sunday Mail the First Minister ...

John Swinney has insisted the SNP is “back in business”, as several clouds hanging over his chances of keeping his job next year have begun to part ways. The First Minister has had a spring in ...

John Swinney has warned Scotland's NHS faces being starved of funding from Westminster as Rachel Reeves is poised to wield the axe on government departments and "target" vulnerable groups in her ...

"Today is an unbearably sad day," begins John Swinney. The first minister says MSPs are having to come to terms with "the loss of our generous, kind, loyal and fun-loving colleague Christina McKelvie.