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If you switch funds in that way, you cannot make new purchases. It is not cheap to buy a Titian: purchases are by definition significant and involve large sums of money.
In the city of Edinburgh, for example, the main problem is not so much tonic wine such as Buckfast but high-alcohol-by-volume ciders, which are remarkably cheap and, as various newspapers have pointed out, sometimes cheaper than the available water.
I want to continue to work with Irene Oldfather and everybody else locally who wants success in Ayrshire rather than a cheap political opportunity to kick the issue around this chamber.
It is certainly time for a review. Given the latest research by Professor Neil McKeganey, which finds that the methadone programme helps fewer than 4 per cent of addicts to kick their habit, does the First Minister agree that we need to review the methadone programme and drug treatment services in general and to ask hard questions about both?
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Date answered:
18 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what financial resources have been, or will be, allocated to implement the new guidelines on racist crime issued to all chief constables on 26 February 2002.
Before being formally lodged, the petition was hosted on the e-petitions website and, in the period between 7 July and 26 August 2005, it gained 140 signatures.