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With the financial inclusion fund, a range of indicators were used, including the number of people without bank accounts.In the first round, money from the working for families fund was distributed among 10 local authorities.
As the Minister for Rural Affairs is with us today, we have an opportunity to discuss a possible date for such a meeting. The proposed time, date and venue are 10.30 am to 11.30 am on Monday 31 January at the Scottish Executive rural affairs department headquarters.
Instead, there will be a short business motion dealing with the formal meetings over the bankholiday. It will be lodged by Mr McCabe now and be taken at the end of this afternoon's debate.
As I said in answer to previous questions, on paper there is still a gap in respect of absolute commitments: that is, pounds in the bank. If at the beginning of the process we had required not just a funding statement but pound notes in the bank, we would never have got away from first base.