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That is not to suggest by any stretch of the imagination that we do not need new homes; we need many new homes. We need a new-build programme for social housing across the board.
It is quite clear that, if a 40-year-old invites a 14-year-old girl, in full knowledge of her age, to visit him in his flat when no one else is present, there could be a problem.
The major decreases are in expenditure on communities programmes, down £35 million in real terms—I will come back to that—and in the unallocated capital modernisation fund, down £26 million in real terms. However, all is not as it seems.
From memory, I cannot recall seeing a big local government underspend within the totals. The latest figures for local authorities show a considerable underspend.
That was caused by the deliberate transfer of taxation from national to local government, the creation of new burdens for local authorities and the partial funding of new initiatives, particularly by the Scottish Executive.