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It was about your funding concerns. A new responsibility is being placed on local authorities and they must construct a system to manage that new activity.
I also thank those in the gallery who have come through from Glasgow to join us this evening.I should declare an interest because I am a visiting professor at the University of Strathclyde.
On the manufacturing side, the closure of the Nestlé plant in Dumfries with the loss of 99 jobs is the latest in a seemingly endless line of bad-news stories that have made the local papers.
If we take the UK spending level to be 100, members will note that education spending in Scotland at the start of the devolution period was 26 per cent above the UK average, but has now fallen to 17 per cent above the UK—117 in the table.
If it results in the establishment of a youth court in Paisley, will she accept my invitation to visit it with me? I am always keen to visit such new initiatives.
On section 1, there is the general issue of the 28-day emergency order, which relates to paragraph 6 of proposed new schedule 3A to the 1981 act. The other issue relates to paragraph 8 of the proposed new schedule, and concerns compensation.