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In any case, that is just damage limitation, given the unlevel playing field that we are starting with, and it would give no extra money to Scotland, as any extra coupled support would have to be funded from within Scotland’s existing budgets.
We heard from Ken Macintosh that we need extra money for our colleges. Given the proximity of Hallowe’en, he channelled the spirit of his colleague Michael McMahon—a scary prospect, I know—and told us that we needed extra money for local government as well.
In fact we were very efficient in finishing off the extra work and staff found other jobs very readily, having had the experience of setting up Revenue Scotland.
I think that it has been suggested that having that split in itself costs extra money, and one suggestion is that it would be simpler to have a ban in the whole area.