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Mr McTernan suggests that local authorities should not provide education; instead, the funding should go directly to schools, which would then buy in services from local authorities.
With the bill, we are trying to give them the ability to act; the question of funding and deployment can be taken up elsewhere.We cannot predict entirely the date of royal assent, but I hope that it will be in time for us to be able to act next spring.
MSPs are learning fast how to cope with new technology and we hope that, by the time we are in the new Parliament building, the media will be similarly comfortable with those developments and that we might in future be able to dispense with paper copies.
As the committee will recall from stage 1, between 2004 and 2007 we are funding two organisations to provide for advocacy through the unified voluntary sector fund.
I must make progress. Two other recent examples of funding that I would like to mention are the £449,000 over two years to support the Cashmere Club and the £10,000 to help companies to attend the London fashion week exhibition.
They monitored regularly and were prepared to be flexible about the way in which they used available staff, rather than sticking to the original plans.
It may be that we also end up reporting on all the memorandums, but the phrase "may report" gives us flexibility, particularly since we are likely to end up with them all bunched together at the end of the term.