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To ask the Scottish Executive what plans have been put in place to get officers to remote areas if needed in an emergency situation if plans for a single police force go ahead and whether there is a contingency plan.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
20 March 2012
Through the Youth Music Initiative (YMI), which offers young people opportunities to get involved in music projects, we have committed a further £10 million in this financial year (2011-12).
The issue matters because, today, again, the First Minister has confirmed that, after the general election, the Scottish Government wants to get rid of the block grant and use oil to pay for Scotland’s schools and hospitals.
At that point, the big four controlled somewhere between two thirds and three quarters of the retail sector in this country; their share is now getting close to 90 per cent, and it is still expanding.
The First Minister says that we should vote for independence to get away from the Tories’ destructive policies, and yet he is committing an independent Scotland to the same tax rates that the Tories set—Interruption.