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One of Gordon Aikman’s main achievements was the doubling of the number of MND specialist nurses. We now have an extra £2.5 million a year, ensuring that all specialist nurses are funded by the NHS.
Pupil equity funding was trumpeted by John Swinney as extra cash for schools in deprived areas to spend, as they know best how to close the attainment gap.
How would it ever get repayment or interest on that unless it was done through extra lending to a local authority? Local authorities are bound by prudential borrowing.
I am pleased that the cabinet secretary has said that there will not be a delay in the AWPR. However, will the collapse add extra cost to the AWPR? I am very concerned about the subcontractors who work not just on the AWPR contract but across the country.
Will the Scottish Government help the council with extra funds, given the number of wind farms in the Highlands that are being decided on under section 36 powers?
We will not take any lectures from the Tories; the SNP is cleaning up their mess when it comes to housing. Thank you for giving us extra time, Ms Maguire. We now move to the closing speeches.
The current UK fisheries minister promised hundreds of thousands of tonnes of extra fish for the UK fleet, yet, now that the negotiations have started, we see the true colours of the UK Government.
One more was partially achieved and three were not achieved. We achieved an extra £47 million of opportunity for the fishing industry and we secured full eligible quota top-ups to support the phasing of stocks in to the discard ban.
One paper said: “Whitehall is working on more than 500 Brexit-related projects and could need to hire 30,000 extra civil servants”, and the Government “may need another six months to decide on its priorities”.
In fact, there is a boast of a press release from Humza Yousaf this week about £3 million-worth of extra investment to improve passenger comfort and accessibility on our railways.