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—Official Report, Local Government and Communities Committee, Date 7 March 2018; c 46. I think that most of us have a view that is somewhere between those two extremes.
I am looking at the paper that was produced by Mariana Mazzucato and Laurie Macfarlane for the Government in March 2019. Much importance is being attached to mission-orientated finance.
That is why, on 21 February last year, we wrote to the First Minister to outline why we need local tax reform. It is why, last March, we published a paper outlining what a fiscal framework for local government might look like.
Is she aware that Child Watch in north Ayr will close in March, which is in part due to South Ayrshire Council providing the poor funding rate of £3.50 per hour?
“Tackling child poverty delivery plan: forecasting child poverty in Scotland”, which was published in March, was backed by a multimillion pound package of investment, including a £50 million fund for tackling child poverty.
The draft plan that was published in March was met with open disappointment from Samaritans Scotland, which had engaged with the Scottish Government prior to its publication.
My expectation and my ambition is that we will be able to reach an agreement to continue the effective co-operation that we have at a European level, although that clearly has further to go after the March council. Now is the time when that future relationship is being discussed.
—Official Report, Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform Committee, 13 March; c 26-27. There are some capacity issues there, as well as issues around resolving some of the social conditions in which tenant farmers and other folk on such estates live.