Finance Secretary John Swinney yesterday unveiled what he called "the right Budget for Scotland now," as he confirmed plans to accelerate capital spending to help the country get through the recession.

Finance Secretary John Swinney yesterday unveiled what he called "the right Budget for Scotland now," as he confirmed plans to accelerate capital spending to help the country get through the recession.

Mr Swinney said: "This is a Budget to support economic recovery."

The 2009-10 Budget will total almost £33bn of which infrastructure spending will be £3.5bn. Health will swallow up almost a third of the Budget, some £10.4bn, the finance budget, including transport, just under £3.4bn, education almost £2.8bn, and provision for teaching and NHS pensions almost £2.7bn.

The other big headline figure is the £10.3bn that goes to local government. It represents another increase in the share of the cake, although a tiny incremental increase, and because it comes with a £70m incentive to freeze the council tax it will dominate political coverage for the next few weeks. Here is the full picture: LOCAL GOVERNMENT The share of the public spending cake received by councils continues to rise. It was 33.39% under the last administration, rising to 33.53% last year, 33.58% next year and a projected 33.76% in 2010/11. There will be a pot of £70m available to those councils who are prepared to freeze their council tax, a sum equivalent to a tax rise of 3.2%.

Local authorities will also receive a further £90m from bringing forward future capital spending from 2010/11 to the coming year. Councils will be able to use this accelerated allocation to pitch for projects involving schools, housing, local roads and transport.

TRANSPORT This budget will be boosted by £24m from the accelerated capital expenditure programme which will go towards dualling a stretch of the A75 Euroroute to Stranraer, in the south-west, a by-pass for Fochabers in the Highlands, and continued improvements to the A9 between Perth and Inverness at Moy, Bankfoot and Carrbridge.

Another £5m brought forward will contribute £5m to park-and-ride facilities in Ayrshire, Lanarkshire, East Renfrewshire and Glasgow.

EDUCATION Further and higher education will get £1.7bn in investment. Campus developments in further and higher education will also receive £13m under the accelerated capital funding scheme to create modern facilities.

HEALTH There is £50m of specific money under the accelerated capital expenditure scheme for new dental schemes in Cumnock, Ayr, Fraserburgh, Campbeltown and Inverness, as well as new primary care centres in Dumfries and Ardrossan and a new health centre in Aberdeen.

HOUSING More than £500m will go into the Affordable Housing Investment programme, including £100m brought forward from future capital spending, along with £25m for the Home Owners' Support Fund. There will be £85m under the accelerated capital spending scheme to promote new affordable housing starts and measures to tackle fuel poverty. The shared equity scheme for first-time buyers increases to £60m.

ENTERPRISE There will be £200m brought forward under European Structural Funds to back some 300 projects. In addition their will be £30m to help improve the SECC Arena in Glasgow, the Fife Energy Park, and the Edinburgh Bio-Quarter in the vicinity of the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary - all projects delivered through the enterprise network. The other main pledge is to complete the streamlining of the planning system and the online website where companies pitch for government contracts.

There is also a pledge to reduce payment of government bills from 30 days to 10 days. . The Partnership Action for Continuing Employment and a doubling in the Scottish Manufacturing Advisory Service will help tackle unemployment.

HORSE-TRADING There is £55m in the Budget to improve employability and skills development, in line with the Labour amendment last year. Already there are signs that the Tories are celebrating some concessions, such as an agreement to create a new monitoring scheme to track hospital infection, and backing for small businesses.

The LibDems' big idea, a 2p cut in income tax costing £800m, has been rejected. The Greens still hope to make more progress on spending on insulation and Margo MacDonald has already celebrated some extra cash for Edinburgh to help it meet its capital city status obligations.

Talks around the margins of all of these issues will continue next week and will form the basis of motions in committee when the Budget Bill goes into stage 2 of the process.