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The new futures fund and the Scottish co-operative development agency have received additional funds from end-year flexibility and other sources in the enterprise budget.
(S1O-3823) The Scottish Prison Service has received £17 million in end-year flexibilityfunding in 2001-02. That funding has been allocated to the capital building programme, which includes investment in prisoner accommodation.
It is important that we strike the right balance and I hope that we will retain an excellence fund that is specifically reserved for the development of top-priority areas of educational provision.
The situation could seriously deteriorate if a planned visit by the Scottish Government to the middle east to seek investment funds for public projects in Scotland goes ahead.
Some of the universities have said that there seems to be a hole in the funding allowances to develop ideas into commercial projects that a company would take up.
I see something that is totally flexible that will last for five—not 20—years and which will have inner boundaries that are wholly flexible in relation to development need.