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human
ELI5 - Why is it that England pays the same taxes as Scotland but Scotland get more benefits such as free prescriptions and free university fees?
gpt
The free prescriptions and free university fees are provided by the Scottish Government. This naturally has no jurisdiction in England, so those laws don't apply there.

The Scottish Parliament gets its money as a lump sum from the central UK goverment, and its then up to the Executive of the Scottish government to decide how to spend that. The current Scottish government has decided it will use some of that money to provide free prescriptions and free university places, rather than spend the money on other things.