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Section 9—Co-ordinated support plans: further provision Amendment 26 not moved. Amendment 180, in the name of Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, is grouped with amendment 181.
New Forth Crossing To ask the Scottish Executive what progress has been made in the decision-making process about a new crossing for the Forth at North Queensferry.
More generally, £27 million has been given to councils to help implement the Housing (Scotland) Act 2001. That money will also fund new and better temporary accommodation.
The Executive has decided to withdraw its current draft and lay a new draft order in the new year. I suggest that we bring the Executive's response to the attention of the Parliament and the lead committee.
We would be concerned about any significant reduction in management time and resource, and we need to keep in touch, particularly following the latest reduction in class contact time in August, to see what the impact of that has been in practice.
Some communities have access to cars and will use the expensive new motorways that the Executive is promoting, whereas other communities do not have that access and their lives will be blighted by the new motorways.
Interests Before we move on to the next agenda item, I should point out that I did not ask the new—or, should I say, recidivist—member of the committee, Phil Gallie, whether he would like to make a declaration of interests.