The SNP has been accused of failing to set out how it will continue to pay for tax-funded universal services.
The party had been challenged to explain by the end of 2012 how policies such as free NHS prescriptions can be funded over the next decade.
Conservative finance spokesman Gavin Brown called for Finance Secretary John Swinney to publish the details during a heated Holyrood debate on public service provision on October 3.
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