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Appointment of up to two Commissioners to the Scottish Fiscal Commission

Deadline 12:00 on 10 June 2025

The Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government is seeking to appoint two Commissioners to the Scottish Fiscal Commission. The Cabinet Secretary particularly welcomes applications from women, disabled people, LGBT+ people, young people and people from minority ethnic communities. In order to carry out its work effectively, the Scottish Fiscal Commission values diversity of thought, skill and insight. It would welcome applications from a wide range of backgrounds who have experience of public spending, tax or public finance issues, including the third sector, local and central government.

Please note these appointments are subject to approval by the Scottish Parliament. More information about this is given in the applicant information pack.

The Scottish Fiscal Commission’s official, independent economic, tax and social security forecasts, alongside forecasts from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), inform the overall size of the Scottish Budget. We provide these independent forecasts and assess the Scottish Government’s borrowing twice a year, usually alongside the Scottish Budget and Medium Term Financial Strategy. As part of these forecasts we are responsible for the official costings of devolved tax and social security policies. We can also choose to report on anything that influences the resources available to the Scottish Government.

Following a recommendation by the OECD and the Scottish Parliament’s Finance and Public Administration Committee the Commission started to publish Fiscal Sustainability Reports that included long term (50 -year) projections of funding and spending in March 2023 with the second report being published in April 2025. In the years between projection reports the Commission publish Fiscal Sustainability Perspectives reports.

More information about applying for this role, including an applicant information pack, is available on the Public Appointments Scotland website.