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It is not a straightforward problem to fix, as we have seen over a number of years. We have invested extra money. On the back of “Coming Home: A Report on Out-of-Area Placements and Delayed Discharge for People with Learning Disabilities and Complex Needs”, we put £20 million into local systems.
It delivered the largest budget settlement in the history of devolution—an extra £1.5 billion this financial year and £3.4 billion more next year—and the highest ever agricultural budget.
The Scottish Government talked about housing being its number 1 priority before it got extra money. Now that the extra money has come, it does not seem to be quite as high a priority as it once was.
The amendments align with our aims to increase parliamentary oversight, to improve transparency and, as Mark Ruskell mentioned, to get the extra detail that we felt was perhaps going to be lacking otherwise.
I was talking about how universal credit does not benefit people who take on extra work. For example, one of our parents was working 16 hours and was receiving universal credit, housing benefit and all the rest of it.
They sell tickets at the doors and provide safe spaces for the vulnerable people who need extra support in their groups. They do all that work to provide that massive sector.