In the Scottish Parliament

Will the member take an intervention?

I, too, congratulate Fulton MacGregor on bringing this debate to the chamber.

Over the past six years, Scottish Government funding for councils has fallen by 8.4 per cent in real terms.

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Is there any part of our amendment that Alex Rowley disagrees with?

Mr Wightman knows full well that the effect of that vote was to reduce local accountability. The Greens voted the other way.

I confess to being slightly underwhelmed by the Green Party’s motion.

I am in my final minute. All parties and all Governments need to pull together. The time for game playing is over.

If Mr Adam had not been chortling at the back, I might have taken an intervention from him.

No. More people are now in work across the UK than ever before.