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Again, that provision comes at no extra cost to the pension fund.The committee had a remit to consider the grants that are payable to members on leaving office.
Will she finally accept that the local government interpretation of the much-vaunted concordat is that there will not be a single extra penny to employ a single extra teacher next year— Why did the councils sign up to it, then?
If it received the same per capita as Dundee, it would get more than £100 million extra each year. If it received the same as Glasgow, it would receive more than £150 million extra each year.
The issue will be considered as part of our review of fees, given that I have had views on it over the past six years. How to spend the extra money is entirely a matter for councils.
In other words, is there an easy way in which we can identify whether an extra pound of spending for Audit Scotland can save more for the public purse elsewhere?
The cost of providing social care in that way means that we will need an extra £1 billion by 2016 and an extra £3.5 billion by 2031, with some estimates predicting a rise of £27 billion over the next 15 years—a period in which Scotland will have £42 billion less to spend.