As can be seen from the strategy, average earnings are growing more slowly in Scotland than in the rest of the UK and they are now less than 92 per cent of the UK average. Does the cabinet secretary not understand that Scotland’s being the highest-taxed part of the UK is making that situation worse?
From the impact report, we can see that 70 per cent of properties in Aberdeen have had their rateable value reduced. I welcome the cut because I have been campaigning for it for the past seven years. Will the minister now accept that the valuations for Aberdeen were badly wrong and that the Government should have acted sooner to prevent the impact of SNP austerity in the north-east?
Yesterday, the fight to save six libraries and Bucksburn swimming pool in Aberdeen moved to the courts. Will the First Minister contact the Scottish National Party administration at Aberdeen City Council and tell its members to get a grip, listen to the people whom they are meant to serve and not fight them in the courts—or is that yet another example of the SNP failing the people of the...
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Entered the Scottish Parliament on 8 May 2021 — Election
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