Culture Secretary Angus Robertson has announced a review of Creative Scotland in this year's Programme for Government, and the release of: 🔵 £6.6 million, including £3m towards its Open Fund and £1m for Screen Scotland 🔵 £1.8 million for youth music ▶️ bit.ly/3ZhogmJ

⬆️ Boosting fair, green economic growth is central to our priorities. 📢 Businesses, large and small, sustain communities and provide valuable employment while delivering the solutions that can transform productivity and lay the foundations for future growth.

🚗 We’ll add 6,000 electric vehicle public charge points before the end of this year.

🚸 Our Scottish Child Payment is helping lift 100,000 kids out of poverty 🏥 Under the SNP, Scotland has the best-performing A&E core units in the UK ⚡️ We've made Scotland a renewable energy powerhouse 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 FM John Swinney sets out his plan to deliver for Scotland in Scottish Parliament.

🍃 We will invest up to £500 million of investment and seek to generate at least £1.5 billion in private investment to support the offshore wind sector.

📢 Giving young people the best start in life is the route to enabling more people to fulfil their potential. 🧸 We will invest nearly £1 billion a year in affordable, high-quality and funded early learning and childcare.

📣 No one has the right to interfere in women’s personal medical decisions. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 That's why we're bringing in safe access zones for abortion services.

🧵 #WASPI Campaign On the 20th August I wrote to the UK government urging them to finally pay up and deliver the compensation and justice owed to the WASPI women.

🥀 Labour austerity is just as damaging as Tory austerity. 📢 It cannot be right that Scots are paying the price for Westminster cruelty. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 The SNP are clear that Scottish independence offers a different path – one where we can invest our money in Scotland’s priorities.

🔥 FM John Swinney at #FMQs: "Child poverty is so high because Scotland has suffered 14 years of Conservative austerity and welfare cuts." 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 The SNP has taken major steps to mitigate Westminster austerity, like the Scottish Child Payment - keeping 100,000 kids out of poverty.

Column: the same Labour politicians who oppose any kind of additional powers for Scotland also rush to blame Holyrood for every challenge. Their denial of the impact of Westminster austerity on Scotland’s public spending is pure Trumpian gaslighting glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/24560195.…