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Scotland will now be able to retain at least 80 per cent of the funds taken from subsidising production to support rural development.Tying support to promoting best practice on our farms will help in our drive to raise standards across the industry.Decisions on proposals to reduce subsidies further (known as degressi...
However, I stress that our absolute priority for the health service in Scotland is to ensure that people can have treatments in Scotland within the guaranteed waiting times that they have been given.
Yesterday's figures on some business failures in Scotland might have been entirely predictable, but there have also recently been record figures for business start-ups in Scotland.
We would be only too happy to co-operate, but is financial support available to local authorities from the Government in Scotland to assist with allotments?"The committee knows about the legislative differences between Scotland and England.
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it intends to take to ensure that aggregates levy funding to environmental projects, in particular to geodiversity audits, is in line with the funding available to such projects in England and Wales.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
18 August 2003
The sum allocated was initially £700 per person, but increased to £1,000 per person at the beginning of 2003.Trusts have received £700 funding for 516 nurses and £1,000 funding for 217 nurses.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
4 August 2003
However, in 2003-04 the Executive is providing local authorities with additional funding, for all children with special educational needs, totalling £36 million, for inclusion purposes.
The budget had to take account of things that the new Administration wanted to do. We want to fund a drugs enforcement agency, we want to support witness support schemes in all Scotland's sheriff courts and we want to fund a crime prevention initiative to make our communities ...