Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has had with Ministers of the Scottish Government on delivering the Budget in the Autumn and the effect of that on the Scottish Government and Parliament's annual budget process.

I have regular discussions with Ministers from the Devolved Administrations on a range of issues of mutual interest. At the most recent meeting of the Finance Ministers’ Quadrilateral held in Edinburgh on 14 February this year, we discussed the interactions between UK Government budgets and devolved administration budget-setting procedures.