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The landlords are sucking up that extra cost because they have the benefit of income from a wind farm, but one of them said to me, “We are one of the few lucky ones.
A lot of businesses on Skye said that they would not have the capacity to deal with the extra administrative burden—up to 75 per cent of the smaller businesses said that.
All three panellists have highlighted considerable extra expenses that the Parliament is having to cope with, including staff costs, security costs and on-going inflation.
That was confirmed in the Scottish Police Authority’s report yesterday. We now know that the 1,000 extra officers that the SNP promised were not doing what the public expected them to do.
It asks those at the top to pay more—perhaps radically; I do not know—but it does so in a way that will raise extra revenue for our public services rather than lose it.
Mr Harvie asks me whether I will commit the extra capital that was announced by the United Kingdom Government yesterday, but I have to say to him: times have changed.