Just what would you do with £1 billion?

It's a question many across the country should be asking themselves after a damning Audit Scotland report released last Thursday found that the Scottish Government had underspent its budget in 2024/25 by that sum.

- Ian Murray

The end of last week was Hallowe'en, a time of the occult, the supernatural and the downright scary. So it was an appropriate backdrop for the horror story of the SNP's mismanagement of the public finances to be laid bare once again for all to see.

In last year's Autumn Budget, the UK Labour government provided a record funding settlement for Scotland, the largest in the history of devolution. But Scots aren't feeling the benefit. After the Audit Scotland report, many will be asking: where's the money gone?