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It is now easier to understand where the assigned budget is coming from. Last March, the Treasury made a statement that made it clearer how the assigned budget is constructed.
It is now easier to understand where the assigned budget is coming from. Last March, the Treasury made a statement that made it clearer how the assigned budget is constructed.
Figures from the information and statistics division of the Common Services Agency in Scotland suggest that between April 1998 and March 1999 9,500 new clients or patients were identified, 60 per cent of whom reported that they had started problem drug use before the age of 20.
As if that were not enough, in every village, town and city, volunteers were marched up to the local railway station behind either a brass band or the local pipe band.
What emerged from the five pathfinder councils' presentation at a seminar in March before the Scottish Parliament elections was that what was right for one area was not necessarily right for another.
The final decisions will go to the Parliament for decision making in February or early March. Therefore, a very important meeting of this committee might be some time in January to consider those provisional allocations.
We started to find out about this in March 2002. A process of discussion and debate with the council started before the period of the plan and continued during the formation of the plan and after the period of the plan.
As a result, I want to give further consideration to how we pursue the matter.Pauline McNeill's point about the noise from marches—no matter whether that means from flute playing or from the other things that people do on marches—was significant.
I am Tricia Marwick.It might also be useful for me to say that the committee will meet here again on Monday 14 March. Our meetings on 7 and 21 March will be held at the Scottish Mining Museum in Newtongrange.