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Over this year and next, colleges are being supported with an extra £16.1 million of funding to provide thousands more opportunities to school leavers and young people to study at college as an alternative to unemployment.
In effect, if Holyrood had a longer period, the order would be delayed by those extra days. Negative instruments are not always laid a full 40 days before they come into force.
The motion suggests that central collection of data on playing fields will provide an extra layer of protection. I am not against that—far from it—but I ask the member to explain how exactly this new centralist approach sits alongside the historic concordat.
The key difference is that when the Labour-led coalition was in office, we did something about the situation. We ring fenced extra funding, creating an additional 450 jobs.
If there are fears about the local connection being removed and that causing extra pressure, any individual authority can apply to central Government to have the local connection reinstated.
When the national performing companies were transferred from the Scottish Arts Council budget, we added the extra on to our budget. Once you work it all out, you will see quite clearly how those differences have arisen.
The success rate was therefore 60 per cent. If two extra hurdles are put in place—that the SCCRC and then the High Court must say that the appeal is in the interests of justice, having regard to the need for finality and certainty—how many cases will proceed in 2011?
Public transport can be patchy, it may not be available at the right time, and it can add an extra burden on visiting if someone has to travel, if they have children— Temporary loss of sound.
Have you thought of ascertaining whether the Government would be prepared to subsidise the extra costs that are inherent in taking the lorries on the ferry to the outer isles?