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On the whole, people in local government are grown-up enough to recognise that. We must continue to make that point while saying that the best answer is to make the system less significant by letting local authorities raise more of their own money.
—Official Report, Written Answers, 26 September 2006, S2W-28275.We have proof that that is not happening.I ask the First Minister how he, as a parent, would feel about such a thing.