Former Labour MSP for Clydesdale
Does the First Minister accept that the decision to remove the right of communities to automatic notification when plans are outwith a development plan, at the stroke of a ministerial pen and without consultation with the Parliament, has been a retrograde step?
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I thank Jackson Carlaw for his comments, as I have seldom had so many compliments in one speech. However, for the record, I am more of a Cliff Richard girl than a Mick Jagger one. When I was growing up in the rural Borders, a car was a luxury that few could afford and, as a family with only one wage, we certainly could not. For us, the bus was the only way to get from A to B. To get to the...
The point that I made was about families and their shopping habits. If the money from VAT is put back into families’ pockets rather than into the Exchequer, that will help them. We do not know what the Lib Dems’ measures are or how they would help families at all.
Will the member give way on that point?
On that point—
Will the minister give way?
On that point—
