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At the autumn statement, the chancellor suddenly found an extra £27 billion. If there had not been an independent OBR, the Treasury would not have dared to claim that there was an extra £27 billion, because we would all have laughed at it.
I say at the outset that Scottish Labour welcomes the announcement about extra resources that was made on Friday ahead of yesterday’s Education and Culture Committee meeting.
Some, if not all of you have already expressed the simple demand for more money, but I wonder whether you have any other suggestions. Even if you propose extra money, how would you like it to be spent?
Most activities are inshore. The extra cost will be a small percentage of the overall cost of marine planning and the extra activities will go alongside marine planning.
It is therefore difficult for them to allocate extra money for town centre management initiatives, and even more so for them to put money into capital investment to transform the kind of rundown buildings that we have heard about in the debate.
Despite that, we are on track to exceed our target of 1,000 extra police officers. If Labour did not promise a single extra police officer in its manifesto, why is it suddenly feigning interest?
The report calls for carers to continue to receive the carers allowance and extra support through our carers allowance supplement for up to six months after the loss of a cared-for person, and for a new payment to be created to support carers after a caring role has ended.