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This is another budget where the reality has fallen way short of the Government’s rhetoric. The Deputy First Minister repeated today the claim that local government has an extra £550 million to spend, but he failed to say that he has ring fenced almost every single penny of that entirely for central Government commitments. As SNP-led COSLA has said, the actual increase is just £32.8...
There is no point in having schemes and grants if they are not actually being spent.
They are not being spent. The Government has just returned £133 million to the budget because those schemes were not actually allocating funding. I know that, for this financial year, the minister has made some changes, which I welcome, but he knows perfectly well that organisations such as the Existing Homes Alliance want him to go a lot further. They want him to ease the restrictions that...
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Entered the Scottish Parliament on 7 May 2016 — Election
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