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To ask the Scottish Executive on which dates the First Minister has spoken to the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport since 13 May 2010.
As the target shares of NHS boards change on an annual basis to reflect changes in the relative need of their populations, it is not possible to provide a date when all NHS boards will reach their target share.
You have previously mentioned funding for housing through the European Investment Bank. Will you comment on that? The European Investment Bank has said that £50 million of funding will be made available to registered social landlords in Scotland this year.
We know through research that innovation is penalised—for example, when banks are lending to firms that they understandably see as being riskier, those firms pay a significant penalty.
The main problem that we see is that the cap on the size of electricity-only plants is de facto a cap on the size of CHP projects because when financiers and banks look at such projects they ask what happens if there is an interruption to the heat demand for the project.
People who currently get benefits will no longer get the same level of benefits, and people will find themselves in difficulty because the money will go directly into their bank account, which means that they will incur charges.
I do not know whether Keith Bell agrees. It is clear that we banked the emissions reductions from the closure of coal-fired power generation, but we cannot close it again.