NEW Budget cash coming to Scotland will not be used to scrap the two-child cap on benefits or the winter fuel allowance means test, according to the SNP today.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has set out plans that would see an additional £1.5 billon coming to Scotland this year and another £3.4bn from April.

But as SNP Finance Secretary Shona Robison pores over the settlement in the run-up to setting out her own draft Budget on December 4, she told BBC Radio Scotland that “austerity will continue for those impacted by the two-child cap, and also the loss of the winter fuel payment.”