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I have read the committee paper on the regulations and I am pleased to note that there will be no extra costs to voluntary and charitable organisations.
For example, the new job evaluation-backed pay and grading structure in Glasgow provides that only full-time workers receive extra points, which mean prizes in the form of extra money.
It should not hide its intentions about how much extra it intends to take from business, and crucially, it should cushion the blow to the 45,000 businesses that are being asked not for 7.5 per cent extra but for more than 12.5 per cent extra.
I point out to Iain Gray that he cannot just sweep away the fact that he believes that the 1,000 extra officers are not being backed up in the judicial system, for two reasons.