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The OBR’s role is for the UK, so it should have such discussions.The Bank of England makes monetary policy for the UK and is therefore of crucial interest to the Scottish Government; similarly, the OBR’s forecasts and very careful analyses should be available here.
I did a ring round and spoke to every director bar one, who was on holiday, and the chief executive of DEMA, Kenneth Wardrop, who was on holiday in Morocco.
It seems to me a good deal more informal than the approach that involves banking and borrowing. Banking and borrowing is simply about the budgets; it is not necessarily about the action that is required to address the problem.
The use of real-life case studies in Wales has been extremely powerful in swaying public opinion and we were told that a good bank of case studies has been established.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
19 November 2015
Scottish ministers continue to make the case for such a VAT exemption to be restored, given it would appear the decision not to do so, to date, is a political decision on the part of UK ministers, rather than a legal one.