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Ms Brankin seems to pick and mix which countries to compare. The chancellor has just said that, in the next five years, North Sea oil revenues will be increased by £9.5 billion.
The standards commissioner concludes that Mr McConnell's visits to Mallorca were overseas visits, the costs of which were wholly met by the member, and accordingly do not fall to be registered.
Clearly we are talking about livestock areas. If we compare the total area of farms in Scotland recorded in the census as having cattle and sheep on them in 2005 and in 2010, we can see that it has gone down by about 120,000 hectares.
In actual fact, we have commissioned more general work on the council tax and, in particular, on its impact on those at the lower end of the income scale, which in relative terms is very unfair compared with its impact on those at the higher end.
The Government wants to do all that it can to try to resolve any situations that develop in that regard. Your argument is comparable to the justification that the banks made for their high salaries and bonuses: they are necessary to retain specific people.
That £20 billion was rather a modest figure compared with the £100 billion that the First Minister promised that he would have pumped into the Scottish finance sector on 17 September.
We need to consider whether we are in the right place in the spectrum in comparing where we are with the position in England and Wales.A key issue for the public and parents— You have one minute.
One of the advantages of that is that we can see whether there are any differences in transposition between Scotland and England and the economic impact of that. Our costs are compared with the costs of the English and Welsh water companies.