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As you can well imagine, developers are often not particularly happy about having to pay for new schools, for example. The other side of the coin is that some communities feel that their local authority is not making the best use of the section 75 arrangements.
I addressed the issue at First Minister’s question time—I cannot remember whether it was last week or the previous one—before the latest landslip. We are committed to finding a fundamental long-term solution to the problem and are considering a number of options on a cross-party basis, as is right and proper.
Operations had been working to 15/04 as the latest date by which the Field Force operation could be successfully stood up, with recruitment of initial senior roles due to start in July and full team from October onwards.