Ms Robison said as well as the “direct savings” she was making, she would also “reluctantly” be using up to £460m of cash raised via the ScotWind scheme – where parts of the Scottish seabed are leased out for offshore wind farms.
But she told MSPs at Holyrood: “As we look ahead, it is clear that further significant action will be needed to reset the public finances onto a sustainable path.”
Government departments will be asked to make a further £188m of additional savings, with these coming from across all portfolios, Ms Robison said.
This includes £115.8m of savings from the health and social care budget – though, in a letter to MSPs on Holyrood’s Finance Committee, Ms Robison offered “assurances that the health portfolio will seek to protect key frontline emergency services”.
Elsewhere, spending on transport is down by £23.7m; net zero and energy is reduced by £23.4m; with social justice down £15.7m.
The cuts were revealed as Ms Robison gave a statement updating Holyrood as MSPs returned from their summer recess.
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