Chamber
Meeting of the Parliament 03 March 2011
03 Mar 2011 · S3 · Meeting of the Parliament
Item of business
Scottish Executive Question Time
School Buildings (Local Authority Funding)
Finance and Sustainable Growth
It is important that we marshal all the facts and the sequence of events. Mr Kerr probably stood in my place in 2007 and said to Parliament that, if the SNP came to office, it would cancel all the school building projects that were in train. Now, he comes to the chamber and criticises the Government for not doing that but doing what it said it would do: sustain the programme that was in place. In fact, since we came to office, we have delivered more on the school building programme than Mr Kerr and his colleagues were committed to.
The school building programme that was provided for in the Government’s budget substantially enhances the capital programme, which has come under threat from the decisions of the United Kingdom Government. However, as I have said before in the Parliament, the current United Kingdom Government is only implementing a capital programme that was left to it by the Labour Party when it was in government.
The Labour Party has no right to criticise the Liberals and the Conservatives for the scale of capital reductions in the United Kingdom because the Labour Government advanced those proposals before it was drummed out of office in 2010.
The school building programme that was provided for in the Government’s budget substantially enhances the capital programme, which has come under threat from the decisions of the United Kingdom Government. However, as I have said before in the Parliament, the current United Kingdom Government is only implementing a capital programme that was left to it by the Labour Party when it was in government.
The Labour Party has no right to criticise the Liberals and the Conservatives for the scale of capital reductions in the United Kingdom because the Labour Government advanced those proposals before it was drummed out of office in 2010.
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