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Let me explain what has to happen. Normally, we can allow only an extra 30 minutes for a debate, so we have to suspend the standing orders and then ask for another 30 minutes.
Section 13(2)(f) clarifies that if Scottish ministers use the powers under section 13(1) to make provision—say, to implement an EU directive—they may confer extra “functions or restrictions which” they feel “it is appropriate to retain”.
Newton St Boswells mart in the Borders will face an increase of 140 per cent in rates, meaning that more than £44,000 extra must be found this year. Craig Wilsons mart in Ayr faces a 38 per cent increase, equal to an extra £17,000.
The non-mandatory extra £150 million that the chancellor wants energy companies to put towards social tariffs is a drop in the ocean compared with the profits that those companies make.
In the space of 12 hours, he had reduced the commitment to extra police officers from 1,000 to 500, and then to no guarantee of any extra police officers at all.