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22. As with membership, the ethos of equal contributions from each constituent authority will also apply to financial support for the SDPA. For the purposes of employment law and financial accountability, one local authority within the strategic development planning authority should act as the employing authority with financial contributions from all constituent authorities being channelled through that authority.
23. The duty to prepare strategic development plans replaces an existing requirement to prepare structure plans and therefore is not a wholly new function. We therefore anticipate a redistribution of resources rather than a requirement for significant additional spending. The Scottish government is currently examining resources for planning modernisation in the round as part of the wider Spending Review.
Q5: Should funding for the SDPA be shared equally across the constituent authorities and if not, why not?
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