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Expertise should be focused on the specific needs of each of the different equality areas, and the resources should be available. Extra resources will have to be allocated when LGBT equality becomes a statutory requirement, as it will in a couple of years' time.
I appreciate the sentiments behind them and the desire to protect and look after people, but I feel that they would add an extra and unnecessary administrative layer.
In vote 1, the change of around £23.7 million for the rural affairs department refers mainly to additional provision for the hill livestock compensatory allowance, but includes extra money for meat hygiene services.
People have asked what difference a couple of extra cents makes, or a couple of extra soles for coffee in Peru, for instance, to refer to a recent criticism.