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We will continue to safeguard officer numbers with more than 1,000 extra police in communities since 2007 helping to keep crime levels at a 39 year low.
Is any assessment being done of the impact of the extra traffic, as opposed to the extra passengers, on island communities and the cost to local authorities of that extra traffic with regard to the roads infrastructure?
Amendments 5 to 9 not moved. Group 2 is entitled “Extra-territorial jurisdiction”. Amendment 4, in the name of the minister, is the only amendment in the group.
Is it any wonder that only 15 per cent signed up for an extra pound an hour when there is a reduction in holiday entitlement at a time when Britain should be expanding its holiday entitlement?
The cabinet secretary also needs to confirm whether the enterprise agencies’ budget will be increased to deal with the extra demands that are placed on them.
We are doing that work, and we will continue to keep him and Parliament involved as those discussions develop, bearing in mind the pleas from communities that they need extra reassurance and support from their Parliament and Government at this incredibly stressful and vulnerable time.