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A few years ago, we carried out a survey of 26 schools in North Lanarkshire, to establish the average size of a fifth and sixth-year French class, which is not a bad example.
As I said, the mentoring project now has 26 mentors. Had we the resources and the structure, we could easily double that number, but we are constrained by the present funding arrangement.
Last year, Aberdeenshire Council would have received £26 million more if it had received the same grant per head of population as Stirling Council received.
The deputy finance minister told Parliament a few weeks ago:"The only proposal that Nicol Stephen has made is to cut business rates".—Official Report, 10 January 2007; c 30895.Is that fence-sitting or flip-flopping?