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Can we provide hand-holding for organisations that do incredible work with young people, adult learners and participants, but need a bit of extra help to understand how to articulate that in an application?
However, the SSPCA does not see these new duties and powers as extra work. It is already doing this work, but its hands have been tied as a result of not having powers with regard to animals that are found already dead in traps.
Given the knock-on effects of the additional cost of living, along with the extra costs of building or whatever, did you expect a fall-off in the predicted spend?
As part of that, there is also a special islands needs assessment, which gives our island authorities an extra uplift in recognition of their particular situation.
Are enough conversations happening among Government departments before they make announcements such as, “There are going to be 800 extra GPs”? Are they then speaking to the universities and giving them the funding?
Therefore, without catching a single extra nephrop, you could employ four times as many fishermen, which would benefit the creel sector, the environment and our coastal communities.
Minister, was it assumed that this £191 million would be covered by extra funding that perhaps has not come through, which means that that figure has to come back down?