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We have to send a clear message to the Executive that we are not messing about and that, if we do not get a satisfactory response, we will lodge a motion to annul.
Although the £7 million was identified as a saving, it has no impact on the amount of money that local government gets in total—it gets the same amount of money.
Other parts of the bid in my constituency have been welcomed with open arms. We are gettingnew schools at Kintore and at Rothienorman, both of which are long awaited and badly needed and of which the local community is entirely supportive.
We have got as much as we hoped to get out of the SPS at this stage. However, we may want to flag up the issue in our legacy paper, because it will not go away in this financial year.
Secondly, I hope that the feedback that the Executive is getting from the trial run will be so positive that it will mainstream transposition notes and have them as a permanent run.