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Last Friday, we announced an extra £12 million over three years and extra staffing for the local enterprise company, which will be our contribution to work to meet the challenges.
The grants of £2,000 are, as was said, four times higher than the SNP promised. It means extra spending power of £2,000 per year and £4,000 less debt for the poorest students.
Indeed, it would create in the legislation extra layers before OSCR could take action.It is important that OSCR acts proportionately when it takes action.
Our group is extremely concerned that in special cases in which the promoter is not wholly independent of the local authority—or where the fox and the cat are in charge of the chicken coop, as my grandfather would have said—we need extra protection. There is a high risk that, because of the shortage of funds, we may not receive that protection.