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There is almost £3 billion over three years to secure investment in school and other local authority infrastructure, including an extra £115 million in 2008-09 which can be invested in schools if authorities so choose.
We already know about the IT cost overruns so far; we know that extra staff have had to be drafted in by the Scottish Government and that the latest move is going to involve extra administration.
If the cabinet secretary could put the resources of his Government and the Court Service into collecting those fines, he would have more than £1 million extra in his budget and would not have to close even one of the courts.
Does he think that the new levy on large businesses in Scotland—which will mean that they have to pay an extra £30 million, or the equivalent of 2,500 jobs—is such a good thing, given that it might well ending up costing jobs?
Maureen Watt is absolutely correct to point out, as I did, the success of the Government in working with local authorities to deliver the 10,000 extra respite weeks. She makes a valid point.