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Any top-slicing relates entirely to support, training and quality assurance; it is important to emphasise the fact that commissioning arrangements between a local authority and a private partner to buy a pre-school place is for that purpose only.
However, you have allied that aim with opposition to the right to buy. You have indicated that you believe that the right to buy and the right to a home are mutually exclusive.
He can debate 50 per cent tax rates with the Liberal Democrats in another place and at another time, but I remind him that the top tax rate was higher than that for most of Mrs Thatcher's period in office.
Its letter did not say, "Please don't take away our right to buy," it said, "Wendy, you are being too hard on people who want the right to buy; we would like the right to buy to be made easier."
A strong focus on equalities is not always coming from the top and there remain some concerning attitudes towards equality, particularly from some of those involved in some Scottish Governing Bodies for Sport1Research Scotland. (2016, January).
Only 32 of the 1,282 tracts (approximately half of a UK parliamentary consistency in 2001) showed an increase in household poverty of the 1970s. Two of the top three were in Scotland; Livingston Central and Easterhouse.