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This will need to include a rolling programme of updates for new staff. It is therefore assumed that up to 20 employees will require to go through this two-day process of familiarisation each year. 20 employees would be beyond the upper end of the range set out above and therefore could reasonably be assumed to reflect the substantive role that SEPA is anticipated to take on related to the introduction of this new offence. 26.
The budget also delivers a real terms increase of £700m in the Local Government Settlement between 2025-26 and 2026-27, taking this to over £15.7 billion.
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That is not the case in Scotland, where we have prioritised investment in our school estate. That has been shown in the latest statistics, with more than 91 per cent of our buildings now in good or satisfactory condition.
I turn to substantive amendment 80, in the name of Colin Smyth, and amendment 26, in the name of Tavish Scott. Taking a different approach does not fragment things; in fact, if we get that approach right, it binds people together.