MSPs have voted through the Scottish Government's £35billion Budget for the next year.

Ministers had announced a range of economic funding measures aimed at securing support for its Budget at Holyrood.

Concessions on home insulation, boiler scrappage, business support and scrutiny of public spending were set out by Finance Secretary John Swinney as he urged MSPs to back the spending plans.

MSPs voted 66-45 in favour of the Budget, with support from the Tories, Greens and independent Margo MacDonald. The 14 Liberal Democrats abstained.

"It is also a Budget that is responsive - both to pressures that have crystallised since we published our draft proposals in September, and to the suggestions put to me by other parties, particularly on economic recovery," Mr Swinney told MSPs.

"I have used every flexibility available to me within the tight overall financial envelope in an effort to build parliamentary support for this Budget."

But there was no reprieve for the Glasgow Airport Rail Link (GARL) as demanded by Labour.

Mr Swinney said an independent review panel is to be set up to provide public spending advice with budgets set to fall in coming years.

This is in line with Tory calls, along with an agreement to publish online all items of government expenditure of £25,000 or above.

Mr Swinney also announced £10million to support a new area-based universal home insulation scheme, in line with Green Party demands.

"This is new money for new measures. The scheme will enable us to offer home insulation measures to around 90,000 homes."

There was also a £2million fund announced for a boiler scrappage scheme to support the Scottish Energy Efficiency Action Plan, which is due to be published in the spring.

The Government yesterday announced a £20million funding boost to meet the surge in demand for college places as well as #10 million to support access to finance for firms through the Scottish Investment Bank, in line with Lib Dem demands.

But Lib Dem finance spokesman Jeremy Purvis said afterwards that "substantial concerns" over the pay of high-earning public sector chiefs stopped them from backing the Bill. This money came from revisions to this year's - 2009/10 - Budget.

Labour voted against the Budget, unhappy that the GARL scheme had not been reinstated.

Glasgow Baillieston MSP Margaret Curran said afterwards: "The SNP and the Conservatives have stabbed Glasgow in the back by voting down Labour's efforts to save the Glasgow Airport Rail Link. They will not be forgiven for betraying their constituents in this way."

Read STV political reporter Jamie Livingstone's analysis of the Budget in The Cabinet Room.