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Can we establish whether everyone is here or whether extra seats need to be put in? We will do our best to ensure that everybody who wants to see the proceedings can do so.
The comparison of one department with another was only a mechanism to observe how pupils were performing and to establish views on the extra resources that have been invested in education.
The clerk has just informed me that the total number of signatures is not 3,222, but 3,722. An extra 500 signatures have been added, making it even more important.
We have made a pledge on the rough sleepers initiative, mentioned by Keith Harding and Fiona Hyslop. A total of 138 extra hostel places have been or will be provided and, in the first year of the initiative, 1,200 people were taken in.
For 1999-2000 we have been able to set aside an extra £0.73 million, of which £150,000 will be allocated to community transport and £300,000 to rural petrol stations.We will consider what else we can do.
The British Government has allocated an extra £1.75 billion to the Ministry of Defence to fight the war, but the Department for International Development has not received an extra penny to cope with the consequences of that war.
That work is a local equivalent of the Executive's laudable initiative of putting extra money into money advice.It is worth remembering that CABx are at their most effective when they are able to maximise the benefit take-up of ordinary citizens.