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Last year, Parliament authorised a total budget of £26.5 billion, which equated to around £5,230 for each person living in Scotland. Since devolution, we have seen the largest sustained rise in public spending in living memory.
When things go wrong, however, building standards can have a major impact on the lives of the people concerned. That was certainly brought home to us all by the tragic events at Ryan's Bar in Edinburgh in June 2000.
When we were fighting for a bridge at Dalgety Bay station for disabled people, the cost was in excess of £450,000. Was the line already live? The line was live and the cost of £450,000 did not allow for all the other infrastructure such as car parks and the railway station shelter.
Reaction to odour is personal and where I used to live the problem was that by the time that the environmental health people came out to smell the odour it had gone.
One in four adults will suffer from mental ill health during their lives. They will for the most part be cared for by friends and family, saving the taxpayer some £280 million a year.