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I shall give an example. One of the first visits that I made when I became Minister for Housing and Communities was to the Lochside estate in Dumfries, where I came across a lady who had just moved from an old two-bedroom flat to a new four-bedroom house.
Just this morning, I was at the launch of some new initiatives with the Prince’s Trust, which deploys support to new business start-ups the length and breadth of Scotland, including in Dundee.
In reality, once the tapers for housing benefit and council tax reduction kick in, they will have only 48p more a week, which is £26 over the year, and yet that extra money is switched off.
The total number of projects that are supported by our investment of £66.3 million is 756. Details of the latest awards are available on the Scottish Government website.
The onus is, of course, on the minister of the day to take the latest iterations of legal advice and have the Government lawyers look at it and test it to destruction.