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Child Care Strategy To ask the Scottish Executive why the first priority in its child care strategy as set out in "Making it work together—a programme for government", of setting up a new national child care information line by December 1999, has not been delivered.
(S1O-737) The Deputy Minister for Justice (Angus MacKay): On 11 August, I announced that £3 million would be made available in the financial year 2000-01 to fund the new "Make Our Communities Safer" challenge competition.
Our aim is to improve bus quality and frequency by giving a statutory basis to quality partnerships, by setting new standards for timetabling, through ticketing and enforcement, and by making arrangements for quality contracts where appropriate.
(S1O-143) The sum of £100 million for IT resources has been allocated over the next three years, supported by £23 million from the new opportunities fund. We will announce shortly details of a scheme to help teachers to buy computers.
It was drawn up primarily with the quality of outcomes framework and the new GP contracts in mind. An annual visit to the practice would assess the robustness of disease registers to ensure that the treatments that GPs claimed to deliver were actually being delivered and to ensure that targets were being reached.
That process includes investment in new technology, review of the management and allocation of resources and the strengthening of resources to meet both present and new commitments.
The estimated cost of replacing Trident is £25 billion—about £2.1 billion for Scotland. That could pay for new secondary schools, five new hospitals, 30 new community sport centres, 100 new doctors, 100 dentists and 200 teachers—the lis...