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More coaches and volunteers are needed to run extra-curricular clubs and, in rural areas, access to proper sporting facilities is a problem.The Liberal Democrats have long campaigned for better provision of local sports facilities.
I challenge any member to find within those areas a single budget line in relation to which MSPs have not demanded extra spending or opposed reductions in spending.
That means that, for NHS Borders to reach parity under the NRAC formula, it will in the next 10 years need to find an extra 8,000 patients—for whom, of course, there will be no additional uplift.
If a merchant builds a new shop, you do not go and buy an extra pullover—you just do not. There is only so much retail spending, so building new retail space means that the spending is redistributed elsewhere.
On the first point, if the bill is enacted as drafted, nothing new will be introduced and no extra protection will be created. Part 2 of the bill, which deals with penalties, suggests imprisonment of up to 12 months, or a fine, or both.
I would have thought that the first thing that Mr Baker might, as Labour’s justice spokesman, do would be to welcome the fact that we have secured a commitment to maintaining the 1,000 extra police officers on the streets of Scotland.