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The impact on businesses of who pays, how that is accounted for and the administration would also need to feed into the analysis of the effect of any levy on the business community.
Can you assure us that you will take all those views into account and that you will not go only to what we might call the usual suspects, who are funded by the Government and whose money depends on them taking a particular position on such issues?
Mr Adamson is also concerned that the recent changes to the income threshold for care charging do not take account of the different costs of living across Scotland.
A specified person must be a public authority or a person providing services to a public authority. The power to make regulations laying down specified persons is conferred on the “appropriate national authority” by clause 49(5).
Nobody wants public money to be squandered, and we want accountability. You guys, as parliamentarians, are ultimately responsible for that and should be held to account for your actions and omissions.
Given the way in which children interact and speak, we still have to take account of stigma about free school meals, but we can tackle some of those issues as technology improves.
When we look at budget lines and think about the year ahead, in-year transfers that we cannot really account for will always make things tricky for us.