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School board training lacks priority and the necessary money. Funding is quite important. Judith, in your submission you talk about the need to make funding more widely available.
There is a chicken-and-egg element to the situation that makes it difficult. The process is being managed by funding further development when indicative numbers look good.
Figures for the changing children's services fund, ring-fenced GAE funding and other spending on education, health and so on, are all included in the table.
We do not know the full financial position at the moment, but we believe that the SQA had to have a substantial amount of deficit funding for the past year. That cannot be phased out quickly.
Last Thursday in the chamber at 10 past 12, when I told the First Minister that he had £76 million of unallocated funds in the health budget, he rubbished his own figures and denied that he had the money.