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Would the Executive have come up with the extra £6 million to finance the pay deal, had it been accepted, or would classroom assistants have been sacrificed instead?
I do not want to replicate that body, but we have given additional funding to SAOS, to enable it to employ some extra people so that we can do work in Scotland that is similar to what is done by the Food Chain Centre.
Understandably, there is little resilience in their family budgets to cope with such extra expenditure. The fact that there is no spare cash for a rainy day means that families have to make tough choices.
We lack integration in the way in which people do their business and look at the equality dimension which, as I said, is still seen as an extra system demand.We do not envisage a bigger budget document.
If we had matched Norway's growth, we would have £46 billion extra flowing through our economy and 815,000 additional people living and working in Scotland.