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The committee's professional adviser supplied you with a report that suggested that we should give local government an extra £85 million. Mr Swinney's party pressured the Executive to give local government an extra £93 million.
You have invested in 90 new staff, which implies that you think that fraud is a major problem. There has been investment in 20 extra staff for the cleaning exercise, but there has been investment in 90 new staff for the fraud exercise.
There are plenty of slush funds around at the moment. Extra moneys are available. If local authorities were doing their bit, they could tap into those.