Protecting Public Services

As an amendment to motion S4M-12034 in the name of Keith Brown (Protecting Public Services), leave out from "and welcomes" to end and insert "; believes that a decisive shift toward preventative spending is important to protect public services and to improve outcomes across Scotland; notes the issues raised in the Finance Committee report on the Draft Budget 2015-16 regarding the lack of progress on preventative spending, and calls on the Scottish Government to respond formally in early course to the concerns around preventative spending in that report."