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However, Dean Lockhart is also right that it is not just about extra investment—although the health board is receiving help through extra investment—but that it is also about expertise.
I have already mentioned the fact that we have spent extra money on the police throughout the past 10 years, when public finances have been extremely squeezed.
To ask the Scottish Government what extra support it is giving to councils in less wealthy areas to assist with their response to the COVID-19 outbreak, in light of figures suggesting that people in the most deprived areas are twice as likely to die from the virus.
I certainly know from my time as a councillor that the ratings changed. Can you identify what put the extra pressure on the welfare fund in areas where the threshold had to be raised?
The income was about £390,000 higher than expected because of extra work being required for things such as the Scottish Police Authority, new bodies coming in during the year and other movements at the margin.
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Date answered:
10 January 2017
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the reported shortage of GPs in north east Scotland that has resulted in waiting times of up to four weeks for a routine appointment, when extra GPs will be recruited in the region.