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The Executive promised a joint investment fund, which never existed. GPs never had any access to that fund, so in fact it was the Executive that starved GPs and primary care.
It must be quite costly; how are the costs apportioned department by department? Are costs written into the funding that departments and Government bodies receive?
I agree that such an approach allows a little bit of flexibility, given the stock market's ups and downs—which I have to say I do not understand at all.
Will the minister reassure me that the fact that the scheme is being brought forward will not have a direct impact on the funding of the Scottish Executive Environment and Rural Affairs Department over the two-year period into which the scheme has been compressed?
How is the Mortgage Code Compliance Board funded? What resources does it have? It is funded by mortgage lenders and by the mortgage intermediary market people who are members of the board.
We have a motion in the name of the Minister for Environment and Rural Development, Ross Finnie, inviting the committee to recommend to the Parliament that the instrument be approved.The Deputy Minister for Environment and Rural Development is here to move the motion.
Communities Scotland has provided funding for a range of local projects that aim to improve local services and to promote community development and integration.
The number is a best estimate of the ceiling that we envisage, but there is a desire to keep flexibility. As Stuart Foubister said, that flexibility is in both directions: an increase or a decrease in the number of part-time sheriffs to be appointed at any one time may be proposed.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
17 March 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-4248 by Susan Deacon on 22 February 2000, when the Chief Medical Officer will commence his study into the capacity and flexibility of high dependency and intensive care provision.