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The Conservative Government at Westminster has done that by ending the disastrous beer duty escalator that was introduced by Gordon Brown in 2008, under which beer duty increased by an eye-watering 42 per cent over five years.
I have been an elected member for years and years; my hair used to be brown. Laughter. Since I became an MSP—and when I was a councillor—we have discussed the same topic over and over.
Your passion does you credit, Ms McNeill, but you kept using the term “you”, and I am determined to stop that. I call Keith Brown, to be followed by Miles Briggs. 15:41 Thank you, Presiding Officer.
My former Cabinet colleague Keith Brown identified a passage in the Local Government and Communities Committee’s report in a debate in the chamber last March.
Let us remember that 10 years ago we were 10 years into a Labour Government at Westminster that had Gordon Brown as chancellor and which was not shy of increasing public spending.
We will now take evidence on waste in Scotland from our second panel. Jim Brown, who is commercial director of the Binn Group, is just about to join us.