{"id":370830,"date":"2026-01-15T06:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T06:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/370830\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T06:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T06:30:10","slug":"finance-secretary-corrects-budget-after-missing-out-a96-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/370830\/","title":{"rendered":"Finance secretary corrects Budget after missing out A96 plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, Transport Secretary Fiona Hyslop has told MSPs the dualling of the A9 between Perth and Inverness was an &#8220;absolute priority&#8221; for the Scottish government. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said the project was on course to be completed by the end of 2035, with half of the road to be done by the end of 2030. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The original target date for the whole project had been 2025. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hyslop said remaining sections would now be paid for from the Scottish government&#8217;s capital budget &#8211; rather than using public and private investment. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ministers announced a further \u00a3200m for the work in Tuesday&#8217;s Budget.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Opposition MSPs said the money was a &#8220;drop in the ocean&#8221;, and questioned when future funding would be delivered given shortfalls in the capital budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meanwhile, Transport Secretary Fiona Hyslop has told MSPs the dualling of the A9 between Perth and Inverness was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-370830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}