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I do not have the date of the meeting with me, but I am more than happy to give Christine May the date when I get back to my office.Christine May recognises the challenge of ensuring that we have in place a proper supply chain so that companies such as Tullis Russell can function.
These are exciting times for the rail industry in Scotland and we are attracting new rail staff to work for the new national transport agency on those exciting rail developments.
I ask the minister to make every possible effort to ensure that the pace of decision making is accelerated so that Scotland gets the infrastructure that it desperately needs and deserves.
The thrust of the SSI is welcome, in particular the two main points about disregarding the family in the calculations and getting the agents to take responsibility.
Core Government spending is £5.9 billion this year and will rise to £6.7 billion in 2003-04. New opportunities funding is additional to that, as the new opportunities funding published criteria make clear.
After all this time of commissions, reviews, responses and re-examinations, all that we are getting is another development group—and another seven months will go by.
I hope that, within the rational framework that we are establishing, we will have real success in getting the balance right and in justifying both the expenditure involved and the effort from local authorities, local interests and Government.
We will ask for the United Kingdom Government's support in doing so, and we will do so vigorously, starting next Thursday, when the commissioner visits the Parliament and I meet her in my office.