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In 2001, slippage in capital expenditure accounted for 26 per cent of EYF. In 2003, the figure was 43 per cent—although that is partly due to Scottish Water moneys being lent to the Health Department.
He states:"The letter of intent which was issued to FCAM on 26 January 2001 did not require the company to submit a Performance Bond, a requirement which had been notified to tenderers."
In many ways, gender proofing budgets is more complex than I had anticipated. Many of you will know that I visited Canada in the summer. Canada is a leading country in this area and I was able to study the situation in depth when I was there.
A dilemma on output targets in the NHS has always been that it would be quite easy to set output targets in terms of the number of patients seen, the number of visits to GPs and so on, but they are not necessarily a good measure of the success of the health service.
We would be delighted to take less revenue from cigarette sales, but one of the positive developments in the past 12 months has been that, as a result of taxation of smokers, £26 million has gone directly into public health work in Scotland.
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.
Through the Fairtrade group and others, I will keep Parliament informed.During my visit to Kilmarnock, I heard about the work of Loudoun and Stewarton academies.
As an ambassador for the Parliament, you have worked tirelessly, visiting other Parliaments and organisations abroad and welcoming visitors from abroad to this new Parliament.