CHANCELLOR Philp Hammond's budget will slash day-to-day spending in Scotland by over £1 billion by 2019-20, Scottish Labour’s Westminster spokesperson Ian Murray has claimed.

Murray said the Tory government had sought to highlight the £350 million of additional cash allocated to Scotland in last week's budget.

However, new figures from the House of Commons Library, commissioned by Labour, showed that Scotland’s resource budget will fall by £1.1 billion over the course of this Parliament.

In 2015-16, the day-to-day budget was £26.57 billion in real terms, and is set to fall to £25.46 billion in 2019-20, the figures showed.

The figures also show that, by 2020, the money available for day-to-day spending in Scotland since the Tories took office in 2010 will have fallen by over £2 billion.

Murray, the Edinburgh South MP, said: “The Tories made a big song and dance about the £350million allocated to Scotland in the Budget, but this is a pittance compared to the pain already in the pipeline. They have given with one hand and taken a lot more away with the other.

“Not content with their botched attempt to hike taxes for people on low and middle incomes, the Tories are also slashing the budget that funds the services we all rely on by over £1 billion by the end of the decade."

Murray's claims came as Scotland's Communities Secretary Angela Constance attacked the Budget as a “monumental missed opportunity” to reverse projected rises in child poverty.

The SNP minister accused the Chancellor of pressing ahead with his predecessor’s deeply damaging welfare cuts.

She said a slew of welfare changes are due to come into effect on 1 April including reducing Employment Support Allowance by £29 a week; tightening Universal Credit conditionality for parents with young children; and within Universal Credit and tax credits, removing the first child premium and a limiting child support for more than two children.

Constance warned that the net effect of these changes alone will be to reduce spending by an estimated £200 million in Scotland by 2021/22 – part of an overall cut of more than £1 billion worth of Scotland’s welfare spend. The Institute of Fiscal Studies estimates this will result in an increase in child poverty levels.

She said: "The Tories announced some incredibly vindictive welfare cuts two years ago, and clearly they were quietly hoping that we would all have forgotten about them – but within a matter of weeks, tens of thousands of families across Scotland will see their incomes cut even further."

In response, a UK government spokesperson said: “Tackling poverty and disadvantage is a government priority and thanks to our reforms, we have record employment and the number of children living in workless households is at a record low.

"Our welfare reforms are incentivising work while ensuring support is in place for those that need it and we continue to spend £90bn a year on working-age benefits.”