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If we want to take a decision on SINA in time for 2001-02—which I doubt we would be able to do if we considered it as part of a full review of local government finance—we must review it separately.Money that goes to SINA is top-sliced from the existing budget.
The exemptions that the Government registered under the Bern convention do not cover killing by snares, yet our evidence suggests that animals die in snares and as a result of injuries that they receive in snares.
The terrible trouble is that although the oil industry is such an important part of the economy here, we know that it will die eventually. At the moment there are huge opportunities; half the gas and oil have not been taken out of the North sea.
I have had conversations with John Sizer of the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council to clarify whether I would seek top-slicing of the council's money to do work on access.
We do several things in the area of monitoring. We record the number of website hits locally and nationally. Young people access the national website, which is the Young Scot portal, and from there they can access the Angus site.
It is a slightly new presentation of the data that I produced for the last hearing, which tabulates or explains graphically the air draughts—which is the distance between the water level and the top of the mast, disregarding any equipment that is on top of the mast—of boats in a sample fleet of just over 3,000.