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The launch of this consultation is an important milestone. The mansion tax will raise vital funds for schools, libraries and other local services, while helping to respond to Scotland's housing emergency.
Our progressive approach to taxation helps to target investment in economic growth, deliver public services and support cost-of-living measures not available elsewhere in the UK, such as free tuition, free prescriptions and our plans for a…
I would encourage anyone who thinks they or someone they know might be eligible to apply.
I’m pleased the payment has supported so many older people across Scotland in its first year.
It is vital that older people with care needs get the money they need to stay safe and live with dignity.
Pension age disability payment was an important milestone in the development of our social security system that treats everyone with dignity, fairness and respect.
It's when the time is right, and that'll be.. I would say that there would need to be a second referendum on the euro for the people of Scotland to decide that.
The commitment is to participate in economic and monetary union, and that's something that we will take on, of course we will, because that's what you need to do to accede into the European Union.
What we're looking for is a normal accession process.
I have always felt that the most basic responsibility of being Prime Minister is to leave the country in a better place than when you found it.
Any investment in a child, particularly in their early years, has the possibility of paying off for an entire lifetime.
It is a fight my successor must now lead and I wish them the very best in their endeavours.
At the end of the day, the Labour Party is the vehicle for social justice in this country.
Every child deserves to feel safe and included, but too many families have had to fight for basic protections that should simply be there.
No parent should have to choose between a summer day out to the beach and kitting their child out for school.
Whoever's my successor is going to face the same global conflict. We keep saying, and it's true, we're in a more dangerous and volatile world than we've been in for probably most of my lifetime. That's not just a phrase, that's reality.
There's often this discussion - what's the right balance between dealing with international affairs and dealing with domestic affairs? They're one and the same thing.
What I absolutely will want to see is that in the next spending review we commit the resources to evidence the trajectory to 3.5%.