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We are particularly concerned to note the latest SFC Forecasts showing Scotland’s income tax receipts falling behind the Block Grant Adjustment, which we consider could, if they come to pass, put Scotland’s future fiscal sustainability at risk.
The care-experienced children and young people fund of £11.5 million to support the educational development of care-experienced children and young people up to the age of 26 provides help to local authorities.
—Official Report, House of Commons, 26 March 2015; Vol 594, c 1585. In the same debate at Westminster, Jack Straw spoke about the time when he was Home Secretary.
We touched last year on the huge variance in reserve levels across local authorities; we see, for example, Inverclyde Council with about 26 per cent of its income and Dundee City Council with about 3 per cent.