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Additionally, while in quarantine, and as an extra precaution, the beavers will have access to baths for them to swim in, containing a solution of full strength sea water.
With effect from this year, staff in its core Directorates, including senior civil servants, and those agencies which make up the Scottish Government main bargaining unit have therefore been given an extra day’s holiday to celebrate St Andrew’s Day.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
7 December 2007
There are substantialadditional resources available within the local government finance settlement tohelp all local authorities, including South Lanarkshire Council, to secure lowerclass sizes. This includes investment of an extra £115 million for the first yearof the settlement which can be invested in schools and an increase of 15 per centin capital for l...
To ask the Scottish Executive how much will be raised each year from Shetland crofters and farmers for each extra 1% of modulation of their single farm payments.
People in my constituency did not send me here to do that.The proposed policy will not put a penny towards paying for extra health or addiction services or putting extra police on our streets.
That is why last year the Government put in place an extra £10 million for the free central heating programme, and why we are providing an extra £5 million in this budget to expand the scheme.
If it did not work, you could legislate, but a legislative approach is more likely to lead authorities to be extra cautious. How do you think that the bill would work in practice?
For us, the issue is that increased road capacity, which would be the result of opening both bridges to road traffic, would mean that the extra traffic would come from the bridgeheads into road networks that are already at capacity.
If that means that there is a bit of extra money for Scottish Water, we would keep down the next price limit, which would use up that extra money on the grounds that customers would quite like to have a price freeze if that is what comes out of the system.