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There is discretion in relation to, for example, planning charges, which are significantly down because of the recession. Many councils are considering how to charge for leisure services.
The preventive focus that is around now is extremely important but, in previous downturns and recessions, such services have tended to prove the hardest to defend in the general budgetary mêlée that takes place.
The Education, Lifelong Learning and Culture Committee will take evidence from Fiona Hyslop at some point before the October recess. I was not suggesting that it should not do so.
They say a lot about who we are. We do not live by bread alone, recession or no recession. The net running cost of the Scottish Football Museum is £80,000 per annum.
He will know that one of the consequences of the recession is that the number of people applying for further education and university places has considerably increased.
If someone is later awarded Carer's Allowance for the qualifying date (for example, as a result of an appeal), then they will get a backdated CAS payment.