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I am grateful that you accept that, but I hope that you also accept that, compared with council tax, the service tax would give rise to significant savings for all the workers that you spoke about.
We will deal with the Executive at officer level to ensure that we are comparing like with like and to work out any differences and discrepancies that may arise.
For the 27 wards in Scotland whose index of multiple deprivation score is higher than 70, the imprisonment rate for 23-year-old men is 3,427 per 100,000. That compares with an imprisonment rate of 532 per 100,000 in Russia.
There are disturbing signs that the level of charity giving in areas of relative prosperity in Scotland is relatively low compared to the excellent giving in areas of relative deprivation.
In other words, although people knew what they were doing, when they compared that to the framework they realised that there were gaps, some of which concerned competence, that were not being dealt with.
In other words, although people knew what they were doing, when they compared that to the framework they realised that there were gaps, some of which concerned competence, that were not being dealt with.
A range of factors, therefore, makes it difficult to be very exact about the consequences.Of course, comparing the situation in England and Wales with the situation in Scotland introduces additional differences.
Those are the figures the public understand. If we compare the original estimate with the worst possible outcome, we would have an overspend of 2,900 per cent.