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| Salmond pressing PM on more power | Salmond pressing PM on more power |
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| Alex Salmond is making his case to the prime minister in London | Alex Salmond is making his case to the prime minister in London |
| First Minister Alex Salmond will demand more borrowing and spending powers for Holyrood when he meets the prime minister in London. | First Minister Alex Salmond will demand more borrowing and spending powers for Holyrood when he meets the prime minister in London. |
| The move comes after the devolved administrations wrote to David Cameron, calling for more financial powers to be transferred from Westminster. | The move comes after the devolved administrations wrote to David Cameron, calling for more financial powers to be transferred from Westminster. |
| Mr Salmond will state his case at the first session since the election of the joint ministerial committee. | Mr Salmond will state his case at the first session since the election of the joint ministerial committee. |
| The committee is made up of ministers from the UK and devolved governments. | The committee is made up of ministers from the UK and devolved governments. |
| The committee may be joint, but the ministers taking part have decidedly different perspectives. | |
| For David Cameron, the JMC is part of his respect agenda: taking the devolved institutions seriously; working in consort with the devolved administrations. | |
| For the Nationalists? It underlines the status of the devolved government. | |
| Secondly, Alex Salmond plans to use the JMC to press for specific concessions on spending: for example, the demand that the devolved territories should get their Barnett consequential share of money spent regenerating London off the back of the Olympics. | |
| Read Brian Taylor's blog | |
| Mr Salmond wants a new statement of financial policy and more flexibility in capital allocations covering the three-year period of the upcoming spending review, as well as greater spending powers. | Mr Salmond wants a new statement of financial policy and more flexibility in capital allocations covering the three-year period of the upcoming spending review, as well as greater spending powers. |
| Together the measures, the first minister believes, would help Scotland's economic recovery after the recession, although it is highly unlikely the UK government will accede to the request. | Together the measures, the first minister believes, would help Scotland's economic recovery after the recession, although it is highly unlikely the UK government will accede to the request. |
| The UK government is planning to give increased tax-raising powers to the Scottish Parliament, as recommended by the Calman Commission review of devolution. | The UK government is planning to give increased tax-raising powers to the Scottish Parliament, as recommended by the Calman Commission review of devolution. |
| But Mr Salmond argues the proposals have been overtaken by the UK government's plan to pay for a rise in income tax allowance thresholds by increasing personal National Insurance Contributions, under which money would go straight to the Treasury. | But Mr Salmond argues the proposals have been overtaken by the UK government's plan to pay for a rise in income tax allowance thresholds by increasing personal National Insurance Contributions, under which money would go straight to the Treasury. |