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I hope that they learn something from their visit to Scotland. We look forward to meeting them later today.We will now move to questions from Maureen Macmillan.
On social partnerships and using the money to improve consultation, as we are talking about the education bill and how we can make things better in schools, can we use the money to do something a bit more imaginative, for example, visiting a school to talk to the front-line people?
However, lay magistrates are more diverse than sheriffs, which is something.On the issue of volunteers, I note that Assistant Chief Constable Pat Shearer is trying to have more special constables, who are volunteers, employed across Scotland.
Day care centres are under serious pressure. I have visited some in Glasgow, I have been to Broomhill day centre and I will visit some centres in East Lothian.
The SNP wanted to talk about figures, so let us do that. There was £26 million in the RSI budget when we took over—there is now £48 million, an 85 per cent increase.
This year, the area has suffered a disproportionate impact from the decline in the manufacturing sector, and we need to develop what is a very important asset to the benefit of that community and the whole of Scotland.The waterfront is an ideal location for the sort of housing that today's families want.