Devolved Scotland, a dependency culture

Revealed: state's grip on Scotland The Scotsman

Such is the size of the public sector in a "Devolved Scotland", its public sector spending in 2002-03 reached £40bn, or 55% of Scotland's total economy.

Sir John Ward, the chairman of Scottish Enterprise said that public sector spending was reaching "Eastern bloc" levels across Scotland.

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