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We are improving journeytimes, we are investing in new services, we are enhancing rolling stock and, inthe last year, we have provided funding for more than 250 extra parking spaces atrail stations.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
7 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how much additional funding it intends to provide for new school buildings. We have increasedthe Schools Fund capital grant by £55 million to £161 million in the current financialyear.
To ask the Scottish Executive what the most recent estimate is of the cost of a new Forth crossing. The Forth Replacement Crossing Study has now concluded and Transport Scotland is considering the study findings.
The bodies concerned are important ones: the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman, the Scottish Information Commissioner, Scotland’s Commissioner for Children and Young People, the Scottish Parliamentary Standards Commissioner, the Scottish Human Rights Commission and the new commission for ethical standards in public life in Scotland, which will include the ...
The First Minister knows that because, when Sainsbury’s announced 1,300 new jobs in Scotland, he described it as—this is not a doctored quote—“a significant boost to the economy.”Now, however, many shops the length and breadth of Scotland face the Salmond super-tax, which threatens jobs and investment.
If we are not able to hold such a debate before Christmas, we will suggest to the Parliamentary Bureau, which schedules these matters, that we should do so early in the new year. It would be helpful if the debate was held once we know what the precise budgets are for each of the programmes under the banner of violence against women.
I did not realise that there was one, but apparently something new has come in. I did not prompt this response, but at 12:29 today the Scottish Government sent me an e-mail saying that it would respond by the end of October to the letter that the committee issued in May.