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Is there any evidence that parents with higher educational attainment and perhaps higher income are more likely to put their children forward to be assessed for the likes of ADHD? Does that extra step that such families take lead to further divergence?
If our voluntary organisations and providers are willing to change and to look at providing more evidence, okay, we will keep funding them. If they need to build extra capacity, we will help them to do that.
There is a series of issues that we will have to tease out and it would be wise to have the advice available, day by day, so that all members can ask offline the daft questions that we require to ask of advisers and so that we have the extra expertise that none of us possesses.
I agree with Mr Macintosh: we deserve costings. I think that 44,000 extra pupils are involved, so it would be helpful to have a figure for the expected cost.
Given the benefits that can be derived from the HEPMA system, we think that it needs to have a bit more impetus behind it, and it should not be merely an optional extra once an integrated package is in place.
I had to speak to the developers to find out exactly when they were making another amendment to their payroll IT development to ensure that the date that I chose for the coming into force of the regulations would coincide with when they were going to do an extra release. I therefore needed to speak to them about that first.
The European Community relatively recently issued a directive that will introduce extra legislation on the quality of tanning equipment, particularly the power output.The effect of my proposed bill would be similar to what local authorities do when they issue licences for pubs, butchers and so on.
Again and again, we hear Mr Swinney say that, no matter what extra burdens he places on local government, local government signed up to a financial deal in the concordat that gives no extra money to meet those extra commitments.
Given that at the election Wendy Alexander's party proposed no extra police officers in Scotland, I suppose that we should welcome that substantial conversion.