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There is no scope whatsoever for reducing services. Identifying where the extra funding to cover fuel and wage costs will come from is one of the things that we need to work on seriously.
That is appropriate, and society wants it to happen, but it adds an extra layer of challenge when there is so much wraparound for children’s services and less wraparound for adult services.
If there is a move to release more people on bail, it is inevitable that many of them will come with bail conditions as part of that, as an extra safeguard. What role would you play in that?
You said that there is an increase in the budget and that the changes will not affect services that are being provided. I am trying to work out what the extra £56 million was planned to do, if its absence is not going to affect direct services.
It is the reason that the company started and it allowed us to expand into current affairs. It then gave us extra grants to encourage us to diversify, and we won a returning series called “Supershoppers”, which ran for eight series, providing long-term stability in the company and allowing us to grow further.
Thank you; we are always keen to get recommendations and extra homework. I know that time is short, but I have a brief final question for David Hunter.
We are not in line with the targets that we set, which is why we committed an extra £70 million to invest in our circular economy and recycling in particular, and there needs to be further investment in the public and private sectors.
Businesses that qualify as producers only because they sell crowlers will be exempt from the annual fee to register with the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, which has been raised slightly from £360 to £365 to cover the cost of regulating those extra producers. The new regulations also make a small number of amendments to prevent fraud and support SE...