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Will the First Minister and his Government match—on a per capita basis, of course—not just the extra £400 million that is being invested in the national health service south of the border to tackle mental health, but the extra £120 million to tackle mental health that was announced this week?
In stark contrast to England and Wales, we are protecting police numbers and have more than 1,000 extra police officers compared with the situation in 2007.
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Date answered:
11 January 2016
Argyll and Bute Council receives an extra £1.97 million from the Special Islands Needs Allowance which recognises that it costs more to provide services to island communities as well as an extra £15.566 million over and above their formula share of funding as a result of the main funding floor which protects councils...
An illustrative estimate of Scottish GDP with a geographic share of Extra Regio output (GDP), suggests that Scotland would have been ranked 5th in terms of GDP per capita against the 27 EU countries in 2009.
Some people argue that, effectively, existing practice is being formalised so there is not a huge extra cost, whereas others argue that substantial extra resources will be required.
I have not worked it out, but it would be about £4 million extra. Is all of that extra costs, or is any of it simply an increase in the £16.7 million base figure?
£342.3 million to support local services, which includes an extra £7.7 million to support vital day to day services, equivalent to an increase of 2.4 per cent compared to 2020-21.
A huge amount of Barnett consequentials have flowed to Scotland, and the chancellor announced extra in the budget. Have you been able to track that money—to follow the consequentials—to see whether it has been spent where it was meant to be spent and, indeed, whether it has been spent at all?