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We will ensure that ruralland managers can continue to secure recognition for delivering biodiversity gainsby means of the Rural Development Contracts which will be available under the newScotland Rural Development Programme.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has had any discussions with developers on meeting the target that 25% of new housing developments should be affordable homes.
I know that NHS Borders plans to develop the site in Coldstream to provide a dental care facility and toreinvest savings from the closure of the Jedburgh facility in development of a communityheath centre in the town.I have no plansto ask them to review these decisions.
To ask the Scottish Executive what new initiatives it will develop to support credit unions. We will consider the needfor further activity to support credit unions in the 2007 review of theFinancial Inclusion Action Plan.
In the real world, Michael Levack of the Scottish Building Federation agrees. He says that Scottish Government funds are"taking far too long to get to the coalface.
That is a substantial increase in local government funding in the face of the tightest settlement from Westminster over the course of devolution.There is one thing about Wendy Alexander's logic that I do not understand.
I accept that much of the direct funding to deal with violence against women stays with the Scottish Government, but the Government's planned changes in the funding of local government are removing other important sources of ring-fenced finance that are currently used to tackle domestic abuse.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
8 November 2005
Since 2003 the Scottish Executivehas provided additional funding, through NHS Education for Scotland (NES), to supportthe expansion of pre-registration training capacity for psychological care.