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Even better, more than 120,000 small businesses will pay no business rates at all from 1 April. Best of all, those business rates cuts do not have any strings attached: businesses can decide what best to do with the saving.
How can that be an example of a Government that wants Scotland’s disadvantaged young people to have the best opportunities and the best chance to succeed in life?
If people want to work, say, in retail, which a reasonable number do, one of the best ways of getting a job in a retail environment is just to pop into shops.
I say to the First Minister that there would be no special arrangements and no current arrangements. At best, the white paper glosses over those facts.