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Retailers (Financial Assistance)
Scottish Executive Question Time — Finance and Sustainable Growth
2:15 pm
Jim Mather (Scottish National Party)
I recognise the member's negativity and his track record in terms of cuts that were in the first instance formulated by the Labour Party. However, he will have heard the First Minister's earlier message to the chamber about the broad shoulders of large businesses and the need to spread the burden to ensure that we come through all this with our town centres having the vibrancy that we want and without undoing the good work that has been done and which the member has just applauded.