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If I am honest, if we had tried to get companies to sign up for those a year ago, we might have toiled; however, we are now having to add extra dates. Peter made an important point about the mechanisms for support.
The option for more couples might or might not drive extra people coming to Scotland. It certainly will not do so from England and Wales, but it might from further afield, where civil partnerships for mixed-sex couples are not available.
Both are based on qualifying benefits, but there is an extra layer of means testing attached to best starts foods, for which people must have earnings below a certain level.
There are various ways in which the extra £10 million can be deployed, which I will not go through now, but I think that it was agreed that it is good that we did not specify how it will be used.
Someone from that business told me: “After 14 days, I was advised that Government”— Scottish Government— “Departments would require extra time to acquire the relevant information.
It is early days to see fruit coming from the RICs, and there is the whole issue of why we stuffed an extra layer of bureaucracy into the education system.
There is no doubt that the UK will become less competitive in world terms. We are incurring all the extra costs, and we are fragmenting a market that we used to view as a domestic market.
You project an additional overspend of £30 million for 2019-20, but we know from the budget that you have been allocated an extra £25 million. Can you assure the committee that you will balance the budget?
It would have been fully compliant for fire safety without a sprinkler system, but we looked at it, and the extra cost of putting in a sprinkler system came in at about £1.3 million.