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That takes me to the committee’s work to date. In January, we agreed that we needed to understand what we were dealing with—what exactly preventative spend and preventative expenditure are.
If that were the case, any investor would be better putting their money in the bank or in gilts. CPI plus 1 per cent allows that little bit of flexibility to reflect their costs.
Most institutions do not have £100 million in the bank just to build a multiplex, a science lab or whatever it might be—that is done through borrowing.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
19 November 2008
The following table shows the number of substantive staff still to be assimilated, the number of bank staff still to be assimilated and the number of staff who have been assimilated but are still waiting for payment of arrears.
Questions and Answers
Date lodged:
21 October 2020
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of showpeople being added to the 2022 census, what action it will take to ensure that their children will be added to the SEEMiS educational records in schools.
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the Scottish Fiscal Commission's forecast that spending on devolved employability services will be £27 million lower in 2022-23. S5O-04265
(S5O-03797) When the Scottish child payment was first announced, we were clear that, although the payment would be fully introduced by the end of 2022, early, stand-alone payments would be made for children under six.
Committee reports
Date published:
19 December 2025