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The Fiscal Commission is expected to lay out which taxes would be most suitable for devolution.

Arlene Foster and Martin McGuinness headed to the USA in 2016 promoting a tax rate yet to be seen.

Susan Rice Dame Susan Rice is another veteran financier who combines banking and business interests with roles on public boards interest in the arts. She is chair of Scottish Water and the Scottish Fiscal Commission.  As chief executive, and then chair of Lloyds TSB Scotland, she became the first woman to head a UK clearing bank in 2000. In 2012, she was also the first woman elected as president of the Scottish Council for Development and Industry. She has long been respected by government. In 2009 she chaired the 2020 Group, set up in response to the Climate Change Bill, which aimed t...

The only other person filling four roles on public boards is Ann Allen, the CEO of the Chartered Institute of Civil Engineering Surveyors (CICES).  While she is not remunerated for work as a board member of the National Museums of Scotland (NMS), she receives £9,600 as Chair of the Architecture Design Scotland Board, and £7,800 working two days per month as a board member of the influential board of Scottish Futures Trust (SFT), – the SNP’s alternative to PFI. She also sits on the Water Industry Commission for Scotland board, which brings in £13,780 .   A Chartered Surv...

“APPALLING” was the SNP’s description of last week’s unanimous UK Supreme Court decision that the two-child limit on child tax credits is lawful. That’s a strong word for a governing party to use about a court judgment – I would prefer the independence of the judiciary and the rule of law to be shown more respect. The truth revealed by the Supreme Court’s judgment is that those who oppose the two-child limit should legislate to end it, not litigate to have the courts overturn it. It is profoundly a political matter for a parliament, not a legal issue for the courts of law.