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Just to refresh the First Minister’s memory, without the Scottish Conservatives we would never have got 1,000 extra police; we would have been stuck with the First Minister’s broken promise.The bottom line is that facts are facts.
We believe that independent scrutiny should, as far as possible, fit with existing board processes in order to avoid delays and extra bureaucracy in implementing necessary change.
However, should an urgent priority arise, are you able to postpone assignments to take on extra work, or is there an alternative route by which you can fund unplanned work?
If mortgage rates, which are at an historical low, go up by 2 per cent, they will pay an extra £4,000 a year, or an extra £333 a month, on their mortgage.
I did not wish to introduce new material at stage 3, particularly on such a consensual bill—I am sure that everyone is relieved to hear that there was not an extra amendment this afternoon—so I did not lodge that amendment.
Those two years are comparable years, rather than 2013-14 and 2014-15. Why the extra £200,000? I think that you are seeing the interaction of both points that we raised in response to the earlier question.