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There has been no application of a framework in relation to using the release of funds to develop priorities, although we would have expected that to happen.
If a community felt that it did not want to take over the running of a deficient water supply, it could bid inside the quality and standards process for funds for the supply to be taken over by the new authority.
We have already made clear our support for family mediation services, and we have significantly increased the funding available. However, there is an anomaly, in that we fund 10 local organisations.
Police Forces (Funding Formula) To ask the Scottish Executive when it will implement a new funding formula for police forces and what the basis will be for any such formula.
Local Government Funding Formula To ask the Scottish Executive whether the indicators that underpin the funding formula for local government are being reviewed.
The figure of 50 per cent was not chosen out of thin air but because of the principle that it would be appropriate for the Auditor General to have the right to conduct value-for-money studies when the majority of funding for any body came from public funds.
Our purpose is to seek any additional information that we might require from the minister and to decide whether there are any points that we want to make to Parliament when it considers the Sewel motion. I will ask about funding. I see from the memorandum that you are saying that no cost will come to the Executive.
There is a genuine question about the tactics of the insurance companies that fund the defenders—taking cases right up to the wire in reparation actions and then settling.