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The sentence where you talk about "less than 0.1% of the Scottish Executive's entire budget"contains a degree of frustration. May we have comparative figures with, say, the Republic of Ireland?
West Midlands Passenger Transport Authority, which serves a population of 2.5 million compared with the 2 million people in the SPT area, was awarded £50 million for 2002-03; SPT was awarded £28 million.
The position in the acute sector is much worse than it appears in your letter. You are comparing the rise in the deficit with the rise in the surpluses in one year, but what about cumulative deficits?