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If the Commission identifies a budget ceiling of 1 per cent or 1.2 per cent and adds in objective 2 funding with menus and priorities and so on, some eastern European countries may be a little bit more flexible than they have been.
(S1O-6050) We are already making good progress on shifting the balance of care for older people using the new funding, which will rise to £48 million next year, to develop more intensive and flexible home care services.
There has been much speculation that a balanced Parliament would lead to terrible consequences—that it would wreak havoc on the markets, and precipitate a sterling crisis and the intervention of the International Monetary Fund—but the statistics and facts simply do not back up that view.
However, in general, we would prefer funding to be directed through mainstream budgets to ensure maximum flexibility at local level regarding the needs that those budgets meet.
That concludes our consideration of amendments for today.European Structural Funds European Structural Funds Agenda item 2 is consideration of a paper on research on European structural funds.
Those programmes include the European social fund, the European regional developmentfund, the new deal, the new futures fund—which is run by Scottish Enterprise—and a raft of other training programmes.