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Does Ken Macintosh accept that the important thing is not whether the Government has U-turned and set the timetable back a year but whether we get it right, even if that takes an extra year or an extra year after that?
I am sure that the chancellor will see sense and that the extra 2p will not be imposed this autumn.On our islands, however, greater measures are needed.
Such issues have to be given greater consideration. An extra £15,000 of funding might go a long way in Glasgow or Dundee, but it will not even pay the cost of an extra member of staff in somewhere like the Borders.
It is a common argument that if something is put into statute, it is given extra force or weight and local and other authorities pay particular attention to it.