内容摘要：One woman said her husband was shot in the head as he was waiting to collect food for their family.

One woman said her husband was shot in the head as he was waiting to collect food for their family.

Where there are cuts in civil service numbers, that could apply to those who work in Scotland for the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, for HM Revenue and Customs and for the Department of Work and Pensions.But there is also a plan to push many more civil service jobs out of London, so there could be gains for Scotland from relocations.

Many of the changes in day-to-day spending, or capital spending on transport for instance, directly affect other parts of the UK, and in some cases only England.The formula for spending should then apply a share of that change to the block grant passed from the Treasury to Holyrood – whether an increased share or a proportionate cut.If the health service gets a boost, above the rate of increase in other departments, that will be a positive for Holyrood as well. But if justice takes a hit, a proportionate share of that will be passed on to Scottish ministers.

They will then be free to allocate the block grant as they wish, so they can pass on the health spending at the same rate as England, or apply that money to another priority.In recent years, more and more spending has gone into the new Holyrood welfare budget, so that £1.5bn is being spent each year on making welfare more generous than in the rest of the UK.

Some of that has been to mitigate decisions taken on welfare by the Westminster government. And there could be relatively good news for Holyrood from two decisions in the spending review which have already been announced.

Reversing the cut in pension-age Winter Fuel Allowance brings a share to Holyrood of the necessary funds to make that happen – somewhere around £125m. That eases the pressure on Shona Robison, Holyrood's finance secretary, as she decides how to use the resources she gets.The police federation has said that none of the other core participants were made aware that Lord Bracadale was meeting the family and the details of what was said have not been disclosed.

The federation's general secretary David Kennedy has said it has lost confidence in the inquiry because not all core participants were being treated equally.The Bayoh family's solicitor Aamer Anwar has described the federation's actions as "a pathetic and desperate attempt to sabotage the inquiry" at the 11th hour.

He claimed the hearing could cost taxpayers "in excess of a million pounds" in fees for "police lawyers."One of England's top barristers, Jason Beer KC, has been brought in as senior counsel for the inquiry itself.