Following today’s discussion at East Lothian Council on the COSLA funding settlement, Cllr Michael Veitch (Conservative Group Leader) said:
“Our sole interest is in ensuring the best possible deal for East Lothian. We therefore believe that the needs based indicators should be up-rated and do not believe the COSLA Leaders’ decision was the right one. We would therefore urge the COSLA Leaders to over-turn their earlier decision, which appears to have been taken without full possession of the facts.”