Scottish Labour has claimed many pipers and other traditional musicians will not gain any benefit announced in the Budget from a new tax break for orchestras.

The party said the Government's consultation on the tax credit provided a definition of an "orchestral performance" that would exclude pipe bands and folk ensembles

The Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra will be among those to benefit from the changes which will start next year.

But a Labour source said: "George Osborne droned on for nearly an hour, but now we know that his tax credit for orchestras won't apply to pipe bands. This tax break will disproportionately help London and the south east.

"By restricting it so significantly, the Government have cut out Scotland's many pipers and traditional music players. This is a significant blow."

However, film making and high end TV shows, such as the US TV series Outlander which is being shot in Scotland, will benefit from "more generous" tax breaks following the budget.

Mr Osborne said: "Our creative industries are already a huge contributor to the British economy - and today we make our TV and film tax credits more generous, expand our support for the video games industry and we launch our new tax credit for orchestras.

"Britain is a cultural centre of the world - and with these tax changes I'm determined we will stay in front."

The tax relief to encourage film production in the UK will increase to "25 per cent for all qualifying core expenditure, for all eligible film productions".

The minimum UK expenditure on any show, required to quality for the high-end television tax relief, will be cut from 25 per cent to 10 per cent.

A new children's television tax incentive will also be introduced from April.

Orchestras will benefit from a new tax relief, at a rate of 25 per cent, introduced in April 2016.

The deduction will be on on expenditure such as player fees, rehearsal costs and venue hire, including a higher rate for touring productions.

A Creative Scotland spokesperson: "Creative Scotland welcomes the announcement from the UK Government regarding tax reliefs for TV and film production and of further investment in skills development in the creative industries. "