The Scottish government has struck deals with the Greens and Lib Dems to ensure that its Budget plans will be approved. Finance Secretary Shona Robison said she would table a series of amendments to the Budget Bill after the two parties agreed to support the tax and spending plans.

Deals agreed with the two parties to ease the path of the Budget will cost the Scottish Government £16.7 million.

The party leaders, along with Scottish Social Justice Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville, have sent a letter to the Prime Minister.

The Scottish Greens will back the Government’s budget, the party has announced, making it near-certain the plans will pass. The party said on Tuesday it would back the budget after securing a regional trial of a £2 cap on bus fares and the expansion of free school meals to pupils in the first three years of secondary school who are in receipt of the Scottish Child Payment.