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Will work at the Haudagain roundabout cause extra congestion around the city? To answer Bruce Crawford’s question, let me explain exactly what the evidence is.
Given its prevalence among the elderly, in particular, dementia poses a whole extra set of difficulties for both sufferers and carers.Carers are the unpaid army of volunteers without whom we simply could not ensure that those with dementia get the support and attention that they deserve.
They teach children skills that they will maintain for life, and they offer children the chance to break out of a cycle of poverty that denies them the opportunity to learn in an extra-curricular setting. As some members will know, I have been campaigning for El Sistema to come to Dundee because I believe that it could benefit a great number of children in ...
That includes around £5 million of extra projects that are being supported through the reprofiling of the SRDP programme budget, which I announced in June to assist with the economic recovery.
The Scottish Government's payment of about £2.95 per patient per year is a considerable sum for less than one hour's extra consultation a week. Are we sure that we are getting value for money from the scheme?
Who was it? There will be £40 million extra to tackle obesity. That extra money, which I am sure that the Conservative party—in all its forms—is prepared to support, is applied to not only childhood obesity, but obesity in all of us.
Although some of that is about the hours that they work, many of them are working full time. It is suggested that they find extra hours, but it is not that simple.