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The 2003 act did not suddenly generate a load of extra cash, but it introduced the freedom for local authorities to decide how much borrowing they should undertake.
Despite the evasions of the SNP amendment, the SNP Government cannot indefinitely avoid responsibility for the extra burdens that it is placing on the voluntary sector and the damaging service cuts for voluntary organisations that are flowing from its funding settlement.It is manifest from the gobbledegook that we heard from the minister this morning that h...
Such an approach would enable the vast majority of instruments to be considered in something like 21 days—perhaps even faster—while giving committees a little extra time. We thought that a 40-day period, which would match the current approach to instruments that are subject to the affirmative resolution procedure, would allow a sensible approach to matters ...
There is movement away from regulation that applies across great swathes of the industry—a blunt instrument—to regulation that might target our fisheries more specifically. Derogation is now used; extra fiddles are put into the regulations to aim them at a particular fishery.
Does the member agree that, in considering the Edinburgh airport rail link project's total carbon impact, we should take account of the extra emissions from the tripling of air transport, along with the emissions from the construction of the scheme?
As he knows, I have argued that Scotland needs the biggest assault on drugs and crime that the country has ever seen and I advocated a £1 billion investment in the lifetime of this Parliament, including an extra £100 million per year for drug rehabilitation.
Retrieved from https://www.gov.scot/policies/more-homes/affordable-housing-supply/ [accessed 6 2005]
Scottish Government grant subsidy
The Scottish Government provides grants to social landlords to help deliver new homes, with social landlords funding the remainder of the costs. While the majority of the extra cost is funded through borrowing, for example ...