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The local government base budget is difficult to identify, given all the new funding that is coming through and all the new initiatives that are added on a yearly basis.
I suggest that we work towards completing our final report on the football inquiry before the October recess at the very latest. Is that agreed?Members indicated agreement.
If we take the UK spending level to be 100, members will note that education spending in Scotland at the start of the devolution period was 26 per cent above the UK average, but has now fallen to 17 per cent above the UK—117 in the table.