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Funding for sure start Scotland has risen to £59.9 million in 2007-08. New legislation may not be required if the system is placed on the right foundations.
I want to expand on some points that you raised. The new NHS plan for England that came out in July sets up new care trusts to deliver health and social services.
During that period, as is always the case when restructuring is taking place, attention was paid to financial performance, new teams arriving, what the new financial regime would look like and how the new trust would be managed.
Predictions that are based on the latest statistical model show that the annual total number of deaths from the illness is expected to peak at a figure of between 2,000 and 2,500 sometime between 2011 and 2015.
The budget document contains the latest projections of prudential borrowing on page 156, outwith the tables for the Executive's funding of local government.
To be perfectly honest, the Competition Commission should butt out.I have two local issues on which I ask the minister to prompt action, both of which involve railway bridges. I thank the minister for visiting Gordon to see the issues for himself.