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(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.
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...
Moreover, we did not get the opportunity to discuss at any great length the role of the civil service or of the political parties in the future governance of Scotland. In operating a new system, we come with certain rules of the game that derive from a particular electoral system, but we are trying to develop new rules in a new set of conditions.
The Executive clearly says that the one-off set-up costs of a relocation should be assessed—that is, the costs that occur in the months following a move to a new location but which are not expected to recur.
I have a couple of questions about the suggested new model of competition and the new framework for the water industry, whereby domestic customers will be dealt with by Scottish Water and industry will be dealt with differently.
We appreciate the need for flexibility, particularly when the Executive is cutting new ground, but the Parliament should be in on such dramatic changes.