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I was fortunate that the council had a mechanism to allow my salary to go directly to local charities so that it never came to my bank account. Until 19 May 2016, I was a North Ayrshire councillor.
The system should have some flexibility built into it so that it takes account of those wider parameters and can support people at what is a really difficult time.
There are pressures on rents in housing revenue accounts. We normally differentiate between general services, which are funded via general revenue grant and taxation, and housing revenue accounts, which are funded by rents.
It is difficult to pull fees and charges by themselves out of the local authority accounts because there are other elements of funding that we would not regard as fees and charges but which are accounted for in that fashion.
Some of that underspend is the result of accounting measures such as accounting changes for how some of the annually managed expenditure funding operates in Scotland and in the UK Government.