Both political parties are guilty of politically correct attitudes toward home ownership and education, so taxpayers enjoy all manner of deductions when it comes to schooling and interest paid on home mortgages.

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Ms. SAMINA AHMED (Director, International Crisis Group): To assume that money saved from the national budget, if it wasn't going to be spent on arms, was going to be spent on education isn't necessarily correct.

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Mr Russell said the figures were given in "good faith", adding that the correct ones were given to the convener of Holyrood's education committee on 18 October, which he said would hopefully reassure MSPs his answer in June was a "genuine mistake".

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Such education efforts also empower local populations, showing them that they can do something to correct their own problems, Carter said.

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