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To ask the Scottish Executive what the 26 minor projects, budgeted through the Miscellaneous section of the Other Enterprise and Lifelong Learning budget in its Draft Budget 2004-05 will be and what each project will cost.
However, the critical point that people should take from the debate is that we have new powers and new investment. We will use those powers to their full extent.
I would like to be finished by 2 minutes to 7. That gives us a lot of time, Presiding Officer.In the past 40 minutes, we have had some heat, some light and some interesting comments.
The major decreases are in expenditure on communities programmes, down £35 million in real terms—I will come back to that—and in the unallocated capital modernisation fund, down £26 million in real terms. However, all is not as it seems.
The largest part of this problem was caused by Britain's buying in American blood products, even though America was a well-known high-risk area because of its paid donor system.