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In 2008-09 this includes £880,925 which was provided to the Scottish Football Association through the Cashback for Communities (proceeds of crime) programme to provide footballing opportunities for young people.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
29 January 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what funding might be available to support the development of a youth academy as part of a football stadium redevelopment or new build.
Although I appreciate that the exemption does not allow dogs to attack or chase sheep, the distinction between such behaviour is not at all clear. Christine Grahame said that the matter was not teased out in evidence and that we did not take evidence on it.
In the final report, as you know, Dame Elish raised some serious concerns over discriminatory attitudes and behaviours in Police Scotland, and recommended that an independent review on equality matters should be established.
Those are the people who have long experience in infection spread—they understand the epidemiology and so on, and the mathematical modelling and behavioural science. They will come together to work out the best way to give us the intelligence that we, as politicians, will go with.
There is a steep learning curve for all of us, and I am not sure that we are getting it 100 per cent right, but we are doing our best. Combining that with human behaviour makes it more difficult, does it not?