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What we have heard from the cabinet secretary this afternoon has been nothing but hand washing. She claims that she is not accountable for any of the things that are happening in Police Scotland, but she is accountable for the level of funding.
From the point of view of reform to make the law more coherent and, particularly, more comprehensible to lay people, the draft bill is a really good idea.
The Scottish Government has undertaken to lay an amending instrument to correct those errors, and the amendment would also come into force on 18 April 2016.
As I say, I hope that the local authority would take into account the wider impact of such a decision on the buoyancy of the local economy as well as taking into account the equalities impact and the impact on those who are on modest incomes.