Little over a decade after he unveiled it at Edinburgh ’s Heriot-Watt University, the stone and Mr Salmond are both gone. The ...

An SNP MSP has claimed a £19,000 annual pay rise handed to all Scottish Government ministers won't cost the taxpayer a penny.

Social care minister Maree Todd defended the decision to scrap an effective pay freeze for members of his government.

John Swinney has awarded his ministers a near £20,000 wage rise but has turned down the pay bump himself to avoid the ...

John Swinney has been warned a £20,000 pay rise for SNP ministers is 'unjustifiable' by GMB Scotland as local government workers consider ...

John Swinney has handed his ministers a huge £20,000 pay rise while struggling Scots have been forced to tighten their belts.

The decision to allow ministers to receive an increase to their MSP salaries was about the “principle of fairness”, the First ...

JOHN Swinney has awarded Nats ministers a pay rise of nearly £20,000 after lifting a salary freeze. The First Minister was ...

Scottish ministers are to see their salaries rise by more than £19,000 after the government partially ended a voluntary pay freeze that has lasted 16 years. The change will mean junior ministers will ...

John Swinney has defended a £20,000 pay rise given to SNP ministers. The First Minister told journalists on Monday the pay hike, which comes alongside significant increases in council tax, was "fair".

John Swinney’s SNP ministers have been handed a £20,000 pay rise - partially lifting a freeze after 16 years. Critics have ...