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There is also the S1 arrangement, which provides free or low-cost healthcare for people who are in receipt of a state pension, which is obviously crucial for people who decide to move from Edinburgh to Italy, Spain or another EU country.
If you invest in the periphery, the amount in tax take and VAT receipts that the Government gets as it goes from pocket to purse all the way back to the centre is far greater than you would get from investment elsewhere.
We feel that we have got a pretty good feel for the views of those who are in receipt of structural funding. Again, that comes back to the point that Lewis Macdonald made.
In Perth and Kinross, within probably eight weeks of receipt of the application we will have made a decision—as in issuing a notice—on an application that we have determined is not subject to an appeal.
I am sure that Gillian Martin did not say that it is, but that was, perhaps, implied. Anyone who is in receipt of the benefit now will not be affected by the change; pension credit will still be paid to current mixed-age pensioner couples.
In such instances, it is a matter for the Scottish Government and those who are in receipt of funding, such as local authorities, between them to decide whether the money is correctly passed on.
That means that the forecasts for income tax revenues, which form part of the budget for 2019-20, will not be reconciled with the actual tax receipts until outturn figures are published in July 2021.