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Rather than have one area of Scotland competing against another, will the minister commit to a review of the funding mechanisms for single GP practices throughout Scotland?
There are many rehabilitation packages in Scotland and over the years we have increased funding significantly in that area. It is open to local authorities in Scotland to make their own choices; I am not here to determine them.
Forgive me if I am wrong, but no consideration seems to have been given to what should be funded as a local service and what should be funded as a Scottish service from the Scottish Executive block.
We must have a better system of funding core costs and existing projects.We should co-ordinate the supervision and funding of such projects through national funding and lottery funding.
Putting more resources into Gaelic language plans might have implications, although I accept that the Executive has given a lot of support to the development of Gaelic in the relevant fund.
In Europe, there will be a ceiling on common agricultural policy funding from 2007. There will also be a review of the whole post-2013 European Union budget, including CAP funding, in 2008-09.