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The company was also offered full occupancy of the homes for five years and the option to buy the homes for £1 each. Despite all that, the company insisted that it had to make savings.
There would be no diminution of service, but there would be more funding in the pot, with which whoever the paymaster is could buy more care. Would that allow access to more people?
It would benefit us if we concentrated on individual income, because the service tax is an individual tax. The SPICe research outlines assumptions not in our original model and does not take into account council tax and other benefits.
I understand that only yesterday six hard copies were placed in SPICe. I was the seventh person to request a copy, so the report was not available to me, although I have a copy from the web.
DNA came into that, which led to the question whether items should be used for DNA or examined for fingerprints using aluminium powder or some other method. The question was whether to destroy the fingerprint to get to the DNA or to destroy the DNA to get to the fingerprint.
In addition, the staff have had the time to buy into the programme. The situation is not necessarily the same in Barlinnie, where the programme is delivered in—I think—the top flat of Letham hall.