The Scottish Government has passed its £33billion Budget Bill at the second time of asking.
MSPs voted 123-2 in favour of SNP's budget at the Scottish Parliament. The legislation was fast-tracked on Wednesday, exactly a week after it was first rejected by one vote.
Patrick Harvie and Robin Harper of the Scottish Green Party voted against the budget after the SNP rejected their proposals for a free and universal home insulation scheme.
John Swinney, the Finance secretary, said: "The budget will support our economic recovery plan and includes vital measures such as the removal of business rates for tens of thousands of small businesses, the resources to enable councils to freeze council tax and a massive infrastructure investment programme which we will deliver working with our local government partners.
"We have also been able to take steps to invest crucial money in our town centres and in the skills of our workforce through increased modern apprenticeships."
Andy Kerr, Labour's Holyrood finance spokesman said Mr Swinney had made "important and substantial changes" to the budget. Labour had rejected the spending plan in last week's vote.
The agreement of MSPs over the budget was widely expected. It emerged earlier in the day that both Labour and the Liberal Democrats endorsed the SNPs plans after the government made concessions to both parties. The Conservatives and Independent MSP Margo MacDonald had already supported the plans.
Last week, the Scottish Parliament was thrown into turmoil after MSPs voted against the budget. The defeat came when the crunch vote was tied 64-64, an outcome which led to presiding officer Alex Fergusson using his casting vote to defeat the legislation, in line with protocol.
This week, the price of securing the support of the Liberal Democrats, led in Holyrood by Tavish Scott, included the SNP administration asking the Calman Commission on the future of devolution to consider whether Holyrood should get borrowing powers. Other concessions to the Lib Dems include the creation of a jobs task force for Scotland's embattled financial sector, the creation of a cross-party body to study public spending, and a commitment to commissioning school projects this year.
All this, however, is some way short of the party's original demand for a 2p income tax cut - the refusal of which prompted them to vote against the budget a week ago.
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Labour, meanwhile, reached agreement with First Minister Alex Salmond and the SNP government on "almost all" the proposals it made. Iain Gray, the Scottish Labour leader in Holyrood, said the Scottish Government had agreed to an extra 7,800 apprenticeships next year.
The figure falls short of what Labour had demanded last week. Labour wanted 7,800 apprenticeships every year for each of the next three years.
Mr Gray said: "We have compromised but we believe we have done it in the best interests of Scotland. In particular there are almost 8,000 young Scots who will have the opportunity of apprenticeships. But the government have also compromised."
On Wednesday, the fast-tracked budget passed through all three parliamentary stages - a process which normally takes weeks - in the space of a single afternoon.
