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In those days, shipping lines would say to traffic from Scotland that had to travel down to Liverpool, the Hull ports or deep-sea ports, “Don’t worry, we’ll give you an extra subsidy.” They gave an extra £70 or £80, which was fine in those days.
The easiest thing to do would be to increase the amount of money in the budget, but we are dealing with public money and every extra pound that we get means that a pound is taken away from another area.
While I was at university, I got 14 hours, which was enough because they were being supplemented by extra hours paid for through the Student Awards Agency for Scotland.
Because we have a digital system, for some tasks, other parts of Scotland and the UK can help us out in areas where there are extra claims that we need to deal with.