The SNP is facing fresh financial pressure ahead of next year's Holyrood elections after new data revealed the party received no major donations in a year.
Returns lodged with the Electoral Commission show in the three months to September, Scottish Labour received an individual bequest of £285,000 and £38,000 in public funds, while the SNP relied solely on public funds.
Across the 12-month period, more than 1,000 donations were made to UK political parties by individuals above the disclosure threshold, with just one of £2,584 given to the SNP.
Scottish Labour, in contrast, received £95,000 from thee donors in the same period, on top of the £284,485 from Stuart Ritchie Brown, who died in 2023.
The latest figures have questioned the SNP's finances following last year's cost-cutting drive, which included cutting a third of its staff.
First Minister John Swinney has denied the party is "skint," insisting it is ready for the election campaign.
“The SNP faces next May’s election with less money and fewer staff,” James Mitchell, professor of public policy at the University of Edinburgh, said. “It is now heavily reliant on state support and even that is much reduced after it lost over 80 per cent of its seats in the Commons last year.
“The SNP is unable to raise anything like the contributions from business received during the Salmond years. Apart from the ability to make use of its position as the governing party, the SNP today looks more like the party John Swinney first led before the 2003 Holyrood election.”