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The Scottish Parliament information centre reported that, pre-Covid, the local government revenue settlement as a proportion of the Scottish Government revenue budget had decreased by 2.6 per cent between 2013-14 and 2019-20.
Now that we have ministers and the Government inside the bars looking out the windows, they are seeing how bad a place we were in pre-Covid, and it is even worse now.
As is necessary with virtual meetings, we will take questions in a pre-arranged order. I will start with the first questions before asking each member in turn to ask questions.
That has long been an area of discussion in the Parliament, pre-pandemic. On 3 and 10 March, there was certainly no opposition from any party to what we were aiming to do.
When there is poor legislation on the statute book, it makes sense to get it off as quickly as possible and instead use credible pre-existing legislation to deal with cases that are going through the system.
I do not think that they can comprehend the idea of a pre-mobile and pre-internet world, where people did not have a home computer or access to the internet in their pocket.
Speaking of those pre-planned dates, I note that the First Minister said that the Government continues to assess whether it will be possible to reopen schools as planned.