Question reference: S6W-27218
- Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: 2 May 2024
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Current status: Answered by Ivan McKee on 16 May 2024
Question
To ask the Scottish Government, further to its answer to question S6W-25684 by Tom Arthur on 4 March 2024, whether it will consider calculating discrete Scottish public sector net debt and publishing this in the annual Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland (GERS) report.
Answer
There are no plans to produce estimates of Scottish public sector net debt. The Scottish Government has limited borrowing powers, and borrowing by the UK Government is not identified to any country or region in the UK. As such it is not possible to calculate estimates of Scottish public sector net debt in the same way as other countries do.