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All of that is despite how much our tourism industry contributes to the economy. Councils need extra ways of generating income, but the bill is not the right way to achieve that.
Before the winter crisis struck, the Royal College of Emergency Medicine said that Scotland needed 1,000 extra beds. Is it the Government’s intention to reverse the cuts to bed numbers?
We know from organisations including the Child Poverty Action Group what we can and must do in order to reach that extra 23 per cent of eligible households.
We welcome the additional money that has come in to support counsellors in schools and the additional money that has been put in to provide 1,000 extra teachers and 500 extra school support staff.
Do you agree that that will cause considerable extra work? Perhaps unsurprisingly, I do not agree that there will be considerable extra work—particularly not for the debtor.
It said: “I do not think that we are calling for an extra £500 million explicitly”.—Official Report, Local Government and Communities Committee, 22 November 2017; c 36.