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To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, whether an (a) 10%, (b) 20% or (c) 30% improvement in delivering 10,000 extra respite weeks per annum would be regarded as “progress towards” this target.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
12 October 2007
Aswith other rolling stock required to operate the ScotRail franchise, it isexpected that any additional rolling stock required for the extra servicesbetween Glasgow and Kilmarnock will be leased by the Franchisee.
In addition to police grant aided expenditure of £191 million in 2007-08, Lothian and Borders will receive an extra £765,000 from the government to help meet the additional costs associated with policing in the capital including the area round the Parliament.
It will be interesting to see how that will be possible, given that local authorities have said that there is not enough extra cash in the settlement to meet the class size reduction targets that we were promised at the election.Will the minister make it clear to councils before they set their budgets that they will have to agree to extra spending on class size reductions despite the fact that there is no extra grant to do so?
However, others might think that somebody who lives to 80 rather than 70 will need intensive care for an extra 10 years. I am not clear how the issues tie together, but I believe that the extra years would have an effect on care and housing.