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To sum up, the "Partnership for Scotland" document delivers. It delivers £51 million extra on education and £29 million extra to help the poorest students.
That is where sport plays a vital role. We need extra-curricular activities, more encouragement of sport in schools and more support for sport-based voluntary organisations.
Neither did the minister give any assurances on the extra funding that might be available to set up new crofts outwith the crofting counties.Having said all that, I would like to take the opportunity to consider the minister's proposals at stage 3 and will reserve my position until then.
I do not want to prolong this discussion, although we have a bit of extra time.After discussing it with the clerk, I confirm that the minister is coming to our meeting on 28 November, so we can ask him to do a brief session on this issue then.
The average swing from Labour to the SNP in those by-elections was more than 9 per cent, which would give us the 20 extra seats that we require in the Scottish Parliament elections next year.
I do not know about you, but we were all right for maths at St Kevin's, so we know that 4 goes into 6, but 6 does not go into 4—there is 50 per cent extra there. The consultation process was a waste of time.