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Frankly, the costs involved are minimal compared with the benefits of engaging Perth and Kinross Council enthusiastically in the development of the national park authority.
Stage 1 consideration has been a comparatively short piece of work for the Communities Committee, as its convener mentioned earlier—compared with our previous involvement with another bill, it has been very short.
In the past financial year, my expenditure went down 25 per cent compared to the previous one. I have always lived within my modest budget, which was first set in 2003.
We have done well in dragging more money into Scotland pro rata compared with England, but the national review of the independent living fund is worrying.
The minister said that he believes that it is not discriminatory for disabled people in Scotland not to have the same rights as disabled people elsewhere, but I disagree; I echo Karen Whitefield's comment that people in Scotland should not be disadvantaged compared with people in the rest of the United Kingdom.
If we had the same level of taxation that James introduced to discourage the consumption of tobacco, a pound of tobacco would cost—by comparing the then average earnings with today's—between £30,000 and £40,000.