Joe Fagan has branded Christina McKelvie as “South Lanarkshire’s Queen of Cuts” while Ms McKelvie said that Fagan was “deeply dishonest” after he blamed a lack of government funding for the cuts.
South Lanarkshire Council 's leader and Hamilton 's MSP have gone head-to-head in a row over school bus cuts.
The free download features the latest breaking news and exclusive stories, and allows you to customise your page to the sections that matter most to you.The row broke out after South Lanarkshire Council voted to increase the distance at which children are eligible for secondary school buses from two miles to three miles.
But Fagan said the money was passed to the council after an agreement to spend it on specific things from the Scottish Government. He added that McKelvie’s “blundering intervention... raises real questions about the financial literacy of those in government.” “Since he is looking to me for help identifying Scottish Government funding he can use to reverse his own abhorrent decision to cut bus routes for children I would direct him to this money.
"After 17 years in the Scottish Parliament, it’s astonishing to think that Christina McKelvie still does not know how this works.
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