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That means that, in Scotland, we will provide carers with an extra £452.40 a year compared with what is being provided by our counterparts south of the border.
What funding will be made available for the new body, public health Scotland? If there is extra funding for public health Scotland, will that reduce budgets elsewhere in the health portfolio?
If there are no funds to call on from the allocation and if we feel that we have already front-loaded enough of our own funds, we are not able to make any progress on the extra group of referrals that we will have received.
You are requesting that we look at extra powers. I suppose that I am just trying to clarify whether you are not using the powers that you already have.
We know the size of the overall budget and that more than £1 billion extra is going into health and social care this year, but there is a focus on that specific aspect.
If she cannot answer that, does she accept that, without extra capacity, there is a risk of increasing teacher workload and undermining fairness for pupils?