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Scottish ParliamentEducation, Culture and Sport CommitteeTuesday 26 November 2002(Afternoon) Scottish ParliamentEducation, Culture and Sport CommitteeTuesday 26 November 2002(Afternoon) The Convener opened the meeting at 14:03 I call the meeting to order.
Paragraph 76 says:"Repeal of section 2A is expected to be cost neutral."The implementation of section 26 is not expected to place a financial burden on local authorities.
Members will see in their diaries that we do not have a meeting next week and that it will not be possible for us to visit a council, a voluntary organisation or any part of civic Scotland that we may wish to visit because there will not be a meeting of the committee of conveners before then, and they are the ones who have to allow—in inverted commas—any visits to go ahead.
He might be interested to hear that Fife Council, for example, will receive £100,000 of the new money. That will boost its annual funding for money advice to more than £250,000.