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I will certainly look into the issue that she raises in more detail. The concordat commitment to extra respite weeks is at a national level rather than at the level of individual councils.
Will the Government match that programme brick for brick, as the minister promised during the election campaign? Significant extra funding has been placed with local authorities.
The First Minister does not fool me and he does not fool the police, but I will offer him one last chance of redemption. He promised 1,000 extra police. Scotland currently has 16,261 officers.
It was on that basis that the bill's principles were agreed to at stage 1, so I do not think that it would be in any way appropriate to open up the bill to amendments that would shoehorn millions of extra pounds into the debate or place such obligations on the Scottish Government or the education authorities.Given that explanation, I feel entirely justified...
Paragraph 2 of schedule 2 amends section 75 of the Debtors (Scotland) Act 1987 and provides a power to the Court of Session to regulate the conduct of officers of court "in exercising their extra-official functions"and to "prescribe the procedure in relation to an appeal under section 82"of the Debtors (Scotland) Act 1987.
—to contribute a little bit more, so that over the next session of Parliament we can generate an extra £2 billion to invest in our national health service and our education system, and to mitigate Tory austerity.
For example, earlier this year Danny Alexander said: “Labour’s new borrowing bombshell will pile another £166bn of extra borrowing on to the debt mountain left by their catastrophic mismanagement of the UK economy.”