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Similar work is going on around the avenues programme. Its full title is the enabling infrastructure—integrated public realm programme, but we call it the avenues programme for short.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
11 April 2012
To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on whether companies that it has ownership in pay their employees via a private company in order for the employees not to pay tax.
Yesterday, I announced a further investment of £22 million in affordable housing through our charitable bond programme. The programme enabled an additional investment of £71 million into our programme last year, supporting the delivery of more than 600 social rented homes.
Councils across Scotland continue to pay for capital programmes and projects that are funded by various public-private partnership agreements, some of which were negotiated a number of decades ago.
You raise an interesting point. There are good programmes and good work out there. You will know about the Change programme, the Caledonian system programme and many others.