Swinney

Finance Secretary John Swinney is warning public sector chiefs that their budgets face being frozen until 2014, as the UK Treasury attempts to rein in spending.

Archive 2009-03-01 Alan Smart 2009

Finance Secretary John Swinney is warning public sector chiefs that their budgets face being frozen until 2014, as the UK Treasury attempts to rein in spending.

The SNP Myth of the £500m cut and related matters Alan Smart 2009

Interim Clemson coach Dabo Swinney is 1-2 since taking over.

USATODAY.com 2008

A relatively easy win for John Swinney is expected despite Murdo's increased profile over the past 4 years.

Mid Scotland and Fife Jeff 2007

And Government department wise, John Swinney has the easiest of tasks - the Scottish Civil Service is the most inefficient and flabby part of the entire regime.

Archive 2009-03-01 Alan Smart 2009

And remember labour's reaction when John Swinney in an equally opportunistic move a few months back decided to restore in full (backdate) the pension allocation to civil sevanmts underpaid over the years due to a technical error, a concession not offered by the UK government

Purcell - pay for your own Labour leadership bid Alan Smart 2009

Yet John Swinney and his team are briefing on "cuts" They are either just thick or deliberately misleading.

Archive 2009-03-01 Alan Smart 2009

Yet John Swinney and his team are briefing on "cuts" They are either just thick or deliberately misleading.

The SNP Myth of the £500m cut and related matters Alan Smart 2009

Ministers have so far restricted themselves to predictions of a £500m cutback in spending in 2010, but Swinney has now privately prepared a longer-term analysis ahead of the UK Government's budget in April.

Archive 2009-03-01 Alan Smart 2009

The system is than bad (how Labour squandered billions on increased NHS spending to see it asked up by more pen pushers and a near doubling in doctors wages) Yet John Swinney seems to be protecting this system and chooses instead to lambast "London Labour" about non existent "cuts".

Archive 2009-03-01 Alan Smart 2009