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Will the Government support our proposals for a national tutoring programme, to ensure that those pupils who need extra help and support can access it, no matter where in the country they live?
That concerns us, and that is why the advice to the First Minister and the Cabinet is that we should do something extra, which we will hear about later today.
Adaptation is therefore covered in different bits of the budget, as often happens in such circumstances. What has changed or is extra from the previous budget? Is there anything new?
Someone from that business told me: “After 14 days, I was advised that Government”— Scottish Government— “Departments would require extra time to acquire the relevant information.
My constituency also has unusual and interesting things in it; it is where extra virgin rapeseed oil came to the fore, because of one of the farmers in my area.
Mr Arthur can count and has indicated that, if our share was more than the income tax reconciliation that is required, we would have that extra resource. That would be the impact.
I have paid 43 years National Insurance”— that is the important point; she paid that money— “and I feel this is a total injustice that have to wait not 18 months, but an extra 6 years to get my state pension.”