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However, the view is that this is the budget that can best help us to recover from the recession in the short term and set us up for longer-term success.
The expectation is that, when it reports to Shona Robison in spring 2010, the points that you raise should be answered in its report. How do we serve the best interests of communities and provide the services that they need?
Evidence that was gathered some time ago suggests that homeless people tend not to be offered the best choices, despite the best efforts of local authorities to ensure equal access to housing for everyone.
I am sure that young people do not really want to hang around outside off-licences, in parks, by railway lines, and so on drinking. Is that the best we can do as a nation? I do not think so.
There will always be tensions and differences of opinion: the role of central Government is to make it easier for the key partners in the process to come together to decide on the best way forward, in the interests of communities.
We have been working hard to make the city the best place for children to grow up in and to give every child the best start in life, including children whose parents rely on benefits or who are born into difficult circumstances.
I am keen for local authorities to be able to take things forward in a way that best fits their areas. I think that the regime that we have set out can best help achieve that, rather than a move to a national registration scheme.