A CROSS-PARTY committee of MSPs has warned the Scottish government it has no “strategic approach to managing Scotland’s public finances,” ahead of next month’s budget.

Holyrood’s finance committee published its damning new report on the state of public finances today, with the draft Scottish budget due on December 4.

The scrutiny report argued that for each of the last three years, the finance secretary had been forced to make emergency cuts in-year to balance the books – most recently when Shona Robison slashed  £500m from public services in September.